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jave36 said:
Fair point, but I'd never buy a gaming laptop from best buy. You'll only get half the performance out of it due to all the crap they put on there. Last time I bought a nice computer there it was borderline unusable right out of the box. I had to buy a fresh version of windows and format it just to be able to do anything. Lesson learned.

But you're right, 1500 was probably a little high. A year or two ago when I was looking, there was a video card shortage due to all the crypto miners. Looks like that's abated, so I'm seeing decent rigs for much better prices.
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Yeah, graphics card prices have come down a lot recently. And I don't think it's Best Buy that puts crap on the there, it's the manufacturer. But Asus is solid. That machine I linked is a beast. Makes me want to go buy one. lol.
 
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BigSteve09 said:
I agree. The main thing that I worry about are the fake injuries.

The teams that didn't implement that approach got their doors blown off, or were better teams that underestimated us and found themselves in a battle. The teams that did implement fake injuries basically flattened our tires.

We are at our best when we are running full speed offensively. It puts up points quickly, it puts pressure on the other team's offense, and that leads to them making more mistakes or trying to play our style, which we are going to win more often than not.

We blew the doors off of Missouri. They never saw us coming.

We blew the doors off of South Carolina. Same deal.

When we came roaring back on Ole Miss, Kiffin started the slow-em-down strategy.

Alabama didn't think they'd have to worry about us and our offense kept us in it for most of that game.

Kentucky tried to play us straight up for the most part. They underestimated us early and paid, then came back and we lucked out with a bend-don't-break defense.

In the first quarter of the bowl game we scored quickly, Purdue went to their money play early for a big score because they felt that they had to answer. We scored again right away, then they put pressure on themselves to keep up and turned it over. We march right back down the field to go up 21-7. Then they proceeded to make the game us ugly and muddy as possible. We didn't exactly make it hard on defense by having a terrible day at DB, but even still.

In most of these games last year, the opponent figured out, either through in-game adjustments or through film, that slowing us down and making the game as ugly as possible was the best strategy.

Were there questionable calls in the Ole Miss and Purdue games? Undoubtedly. Borderline criminal, I'm actually not convinced that the Music City Bowl wasn't a Vegas job.

Even still, the film is out there on how to limit our potency, and that does give me pause.
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If Hyatt doesn’t step out of bounds or fall down or whatever he did on that second drive and scores instead of us turning the ball over on the next play, I’m not convinced that game would’ve gone any differently than the ones against South Carolina and Missouri.
 
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UTProf said:
I don't think he was being modest at all. I think he was poking old racists in the eye.
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Oh, of course he believed that Brown should have won it; that's just how Majors was...modest, respectful, genuine, honest...especially about his peers.

I'm saying that I disagree with Majors.
 
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I paid around $500 for my gaming laptop used. It's a Dell mobile workstation with I7 processor, 4 gig video card, 512 gig M.2 drive, 2nd hard drive, can't remember if it's an M.2 or SSD, 256 gig, 17" screen, and 64GB memory. It's a beast to carry around though.
 
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Freak said:
Yeah, graphics card prices have come down a lot recently. And I don't think it's Best Buy that puts crap on the there, it's the manufacturer. But Asus is solid. That machine I linked is a beast. Makes me want to go buy one. lol.
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When I researched it in 2015,the prevailing opinion was that big box retailers like best buy allow the manufacturers to load it with crap in exchange for lower prices. Boutiques that sell the same laptops will charge more but they don't allow the manufacturers to bloatware it to death. Can't verify that's actually how it works, but my experience with an out of the box high end pc taking 15 seconds to open a browser was enough for me to swear off best buy regardless of whose fault it was.

But if that Asus were guaranteed clean, I'd probably go buy it, that's a sick deal for those specs.
 
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jave36 said:
When I researched it in 2015,the prevailing opinion was that big box retailers like best buy allow the manufacturers to load it with crap in exchange for lower prices. Boutiques that sell the same laptops will charge more but they don't allow the manufacturers to bloatware it to death. Can't verify that's actually how it works, but my experience with an out of the box high end pc taking 15 seconds to open a browser was enough for me to swear off best buy regardless of whose fault it was.

But if that Asus were guaranteed clean, I'd probably go buy it, that's a sick deal for those specs.
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I still think that's a manufacturer issue. Boutiques tend to system build and/or sell brands like MSI where you're buying from a company that makes its money making mobos and graphics cards for nvidia and ati etc.. Same with ASUS. You won't get bloat from certain brands like you will others. But bloatware is easy to remove.
 
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Freak said:
The latest 12th gen Intel chips are actually pretty good, comparatively (for a desktop pc anyway). But prior to that AMD's Ryzen chips definitely had the advantage.
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I don't even know what language you guys are speaking with this computer jargon.... Sad too, because I helped get the whole personal computer deal off the ground. My company built all of the logic cards for the original IBM PC1 back in the way early 80's. I still remember having the CPU, black and white, color, serial, async, bysync, SDLC, and the amazing 16K memory card, followed not to far down the line with a 64K version, WOO WOO. Leaving some out, Hard to believe that hard drives did not exist..... my first unit had two 5 1/4" floppies... DOS anyone..... I remember the biggest fight we had was locking in enough memory chips.... Surface mount components not in play yet... Got left behind pretty quick in that world.




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UTProf said:
In fairness, they probably usually get $500 dollar walmart laptops. But Jesus, if they were willing to sell for 125 they couldn't have paid anything for it.
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That's what I was thinking. She dropped the price from $400 to $125. Either she made a mistake or they have like $35 in it.

I've been trying to find if there is any information from the original owner still on it somewhere. I'd hate if it was a gift to someone and it got stolen or something like that. I'm sure they'd be happy to give me back my $125 to get it back.

Anyone know where you might find that info on a laptop? I don't think it was completely reset, because it still has Vegas Pro on it.
 
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HoleInTheRoof said:
First time season ticket holder and I was wanting to list for sale on ticketmaster the games I wont be able to attend.

But when I log into Ticketmaster, no Vols tickets show under my upcoming events and when I log into All Vols, nothing shows. Just a paid invoice for a parking pass. But I have an invoice from AllVols showing I ordered and paid 1200 for two tickets.

Is this normal or should I be concerned there was a glitch in the system?
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Have you tried selling them on VolNation? I’m sure someone would buy them and thank you for not making them pay fees
 
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Glitch said:
Bury it deep down and ignore the festering gut wrenching feelings that tell you to deal with it. That's what I do!
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Oh, I deal with it. I just don't talk about it. No need to, just do what I can.
 
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GUNTERSVOL said:
I don't even know what language you guys are speaking with this computer jargon.... Sad too, because I helped get the whole personal computer deal off the ground. My company built all of the logic cards for the original IBM PC1 back in the way early 80's. I still remember having the CPU, black and white, color, serial, async, bysync, SDLC, and the amazing 16K memory card, followed not to far down the line with a 64K version, WOO WOO. Leaving some out, Hard to believe that hard drives did not exist..... my first unit had two 5 1/4" floppies... DOS anyone..... I remember the biggest fight we had was locking in enough memory chips.... Surface mount components not in play yet... Got left behind pretty quick in that world.




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In a way we have kind of gone back to hard drives not existing. SSDs are technically not the same thing. Hard drives had spinners - yay! SSDs are all flash. SATA used to be an interface for a traditional HDD but now it's also shorthand for a type of SSD. What's confusing about that? I certainly never got confused by it. ;)
 
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jave36 said:
When I researched it in 2015,the prevailing opinion was that big box retailers like best buy allow the manufacturers to load it with crap in exchange for lower prices. Boutiques that sell the same laptops will charge more but they don't allow the manufacturers to bloatware it to death. Can't verify that's actually how it works, but my experience with an out of the box high end pc taking 15 seconds to open a browser was enough for me to swear off best buy regardless of whose fault it was.

But if that Asus were guaranteed clean, I'd probably go buy it, that's a sick deal for those specs.
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Can't you just delete the unwanted bloatware? Mine has more on it than I thought. At least a little. It looks like Amazon was preloaded and maybe hotels.com? Hmm. . .

Also, I never use McAfee, but it's already on here. I don't have a subscription to it and won't be getting one. Can I just uninstall all the McAfee stuff, or is it tied into system security somehow?

Ok, it has a free trial of mcafee, office365, and Netflix preinstalled. Just gonna delete that stuff.
 
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Enki_Amenra said:
Can't you just delete the unwanted bloatware? Mine has more on it than I thought. At least a little. It looks like Amazon was preloaded and maybe hotels.com? Hmm. . .

Also, I never use McAfee, but it's already on here. I don't have a subscription to it and won't be getting one. Can I just uninstall all the McAfee stuff, or is it tied into system security somehow?

Ok, it has a free trial of mcafee, office365, and Netflix preinstalled. Just gonna delete that stuff.
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hotels.com and Amazon are kind of lighter versions of bloatware. The background stuff you can't see (or uninstall, at least back in the day you couldn't) is what really degrades your performance. It's like on your phone, there are apps on there you can't uninstall no matter how badly you want to, unless you do all kinds of complicated tricks to root it and unlock it and all that.
 
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