2017 Hardware Thread

pparks1 said:

That's good to hear. I'm cool as well with any of your posts to me. I've tried to watch my tone lately.

Me too

I installed Fall Creators Update on my cheap Dell today and found that GPU monitoring has been added to task manager. How cool!

Not that this has anything to do with PC hardware or Windows, but I just setup my new devices I received yesterday. Wanted to mention this just because Windows mobile seems almost dead and I had to renew my mobile arsenal. So I continue to use Android because I don't want to become limited by the Apple ecosystem.

The list is:

1. Samsung Galaxy Note 8 (64GB Midnight Black model)
2. Samsung Galaxy Gear3
3. Samsung DeX station
4. Samsung µSD 256GB UHS-1 (R/W: 90/85MBps)

(no links since all info can be found at Samsung home page.

So far I love all what these devices has to offer.

Using the Note as a "PC" over HDMI atm, with keyboard, mouse and 1Gbit LAN , and it's awesome! Getting Windows like experience from DeX and the Gear3 keeps me moving every hour. All apps I currently use from MS supports windowing and resizing, except Remote Desktop (will give feedback to MS about this). The UI is very snappy, even though I run the device in balanced performance mode.

I know this was an expensive investment, especially for mobile devices but it is over 4 years since I upgraded all my mobile devices. After using these new devices I can say with confidence that it was well worth it.

Thoughts?

I too have a Note 8, and a gear s3 frontier. With my preorder of the Note 8, I got the convertible wireless charging dock and the 128GB Samsung EVO Plus microSDXC UHS-I card. The watch was a gift from my wife for my birthday. The phone was an upgrade from my note 4.

slicendice said:

Not that this has anything to do with PC hardware or Windows, but I just setup my new devices I received yesterday. Wanted to mention this just because Windows mobile seems almost dead and I had to renew my mobile arsenal. So I continue to use Android because I don't want to become limited by the Apple ecosystem.

The list is:

1. Samsung Galaxy Note 8 (64GB Midnight Black model)
2. Samsung Galaxy Gear3
3. Samsung DeX station
4. Samsung µSD 256GB UHS-1 (R/W: 90/85MBps)

(no links since all info can be found at Samsung home page.

So far I love all what these devices has to offer.

Using the Note as a "PC" over HDMI atm, with keyboard, mouse and 1Gbit LAN , and it's awesome! Getting Windows like experience from DeX and the Gear3 keeps me moving every hour. All apps I currently use from MS supports windowing and resizing, except Remote Desktop (will give feedback to MS about this). The UI is very snappy, even though I run the device in balanced performance mode.

I know this was an expensive investment, especially for mobile devices but it is over 4 years since I upgraded all my mobile devices. After using these new devices I can say with confidence that it was well worth it.

Thoughts?

Nice! DEX intrigues me.

copiertech25 said:

Nice! DEX intrigues me.

Here's a screenshot of my DeX desktop:


...by the way...I wrote this message on my DeX desktop. :)

slicendice said:

Here's a screenshot of my DeX desktop:


...by the way...I wrote this message on my DeX desktop. :)

I may need to buy aNote 8 just for the DEX experience.

copiertech25 said:

I may need to buy aNote 8 just for the DEX experience.

Galaxy S8/S8+ work well too. I am however a Note series fanboy. I love the pen and depend on it. :)