mmh imo all the main manifacturers cheaps us out in the laptop category (unless you go into the expensive side i guess). There's always some compromise somewhere :/
But to be fair, i'm not some reviewer and haven't seen all that the land of laptops has to offer. My advice would be to go looking at different youtube reviews on different channels too.
In my experience:
Microsoft devices while not too good on repairability (hard to open) are often solid and reliable, they tend to be able to keep up with the time. Ex: my surface pro 4 is still used and is surprisingly keeping up. I'd say the same on the surface laptop side. They are more work oriented and less for gaming sadly.
Asus has a nice gaming oriented catalog, but they feel cheap material wise. I've got the ROG Flow Z13 tablet and it's amazing the amount of power they managed to put in there, the casing is all metal so my previous statement doesn't apply to this one, but the screen is plastic(?) and has some damage already. I've use a Strix laptop a few times and that's where i found the quality lacking.
I used to think HP was a brand to avoid, but with the ones we ship out, they seem to be decent. I have yet to use it.
I had an Acer aspire that had a pentium in it, probably got it around 2008-10. Used to game on it until it overheated itself off, and rinse repeat many times. Great laptop for everyday use, suprisingly still running to this day. I'd recommend for people who dont want to get a chromebook, as some form of step up.
I think note 1 answers your question (so office 365 proPlus)
update: i dont see anything about copilot on the MS site for that plan, seems it might not be fully released yet (also it's for MS 365 not office 365? love the naming scheme ms thanks for that /s)
Look into the cs.rin forums for "Goldberg Socialclub Emu", I think Darck used goldberg's emu but it might have been updated since.
You can find the forum link in the megathread listed in the sidebar here.
In the post there is a zip file with the goldberg gta4 files, you should be able to click and drag them to the same folder as the gta exe.
This is to activate windows, so if your windows is already activated you probably dont need it.
Anyway, essentially you run the script in powershell and select the activation you want, currently option 1 is the new one from this post and should permanently activate windows.
Should be safe afaik, i've read that MS employees themselves use this script if their own tools fail. I've certainly never had an issue with it, but again they could have installed some spying software and i would be none the wiser. Gotta pray the github wizards audited it for us
Made these pretty quickly with outpainting in StableDiffusion. You would probably get better results with a model trained for it (I just used the one i had on already).
Now you can see the seam but another round in img2img with a low amount of denoising strenght should fix it pretty easily
This site should be good, I refered to the FMHY list (Insanely useful & extensive list of curated links). Also i recognize this site from when i last had to download it.
-Samsung's is VA and the other IPS panel (for VA better darks, poor-er viewing angle)
-Samsung's display is curved
There's likely more in differences that i'm missing.
If you want to use it in a room that has low light levels, samsung's is better, you wont get as much of the backlight greying out your black's as much. Otherwise the ips is likely gonna give you a nicer picture in the light.
The viewing angle is better on the Alienware's one, having a VA screen myself it's nothing too bad.
Something i hate about samsung's monitors is that almost all their power cables are non standard, which means if you lose the cable you have to get the same, as opposed to grabbing one of the cables you likely already have for other monitors. Also they have a power brick in the middle, which can be hard to work with if you have a standing desk.
So here have those considerations
Also if you want a tool to compare monitors: This site is good to compare, unfortunately i couldn't find the same samsung monitor
ads, start menu becoming tied to internet searches ultimately slowing it down, performance decrease win11 vs win10, Bloatware, Xbox locking game folders, the new context menu.. these are the ones i can quickly come up with
Update to add: The goddamn shortcuts, can't just click and drag from desktop to start menu or taskbar, and vice versa anymore
It's explained later in the story
::: spoiler spoiler
It`s his dad's computer repair store' name. Or the one Elliot wants to see it as (in case of classic unreliable narrator moment).
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mmh imo all the main manifacturers cheaps us out in the laptop category (unless you go into the expensive side i guess). There's always some compromise somewhere :/
But to be fair, i'm not some reviewer and haven't seen all that the land of laptops has to offer. My advice would be to go looking at different youtube reviews on different channels too.
In my experience:
Microsoft devices while not too good on repairability (hard to open) are often solid and reliable, they tend to be able to keep up with the time. Ex: my surface pro 4 is still used and is surprisingly keeping up. I'd say the same on the surface laptop side. They are more work oriented and less for gaming sadly.
Asus has a nice gaming oriented catalog, but they feel cheap material wise. I've got the ROG Flow Z13 tablet and it's amazing the amount of power they managed to put in there, the casing is all metal so my previous statement doesn't apply to this one, but the screen is plastic(?) and has some damage already. I've use a Strix laptop a few times and that's where i found the quality lacking.
I used to think HP was a brand to avoid, but with the ones we ship out, they seem to be decent. I have yet to use it.
I had an Acer aspire that had a pentium in it, probably got it around 2008-10. Used to game on it until it overheated itself off, and rinse repeat many times. Great laptop for everyday use, suprisingly still running to this day. I'd recommend for people who dont want to get a chromebook, as some form of step up.
I've no experience with other brands.