Edweird wrote:
Agree there - experience this almost every day. Sometimes I play aorund with the side of the laptop to open it just for fun ^^. No, but seriously, it is in such a spot that it is easy to open if you even grab the thing to move it 2 inches.
Then again you can't say it's hard to open.
Cables on the right side can be an issue, yes, but I find most of the time it's barely worth mentioning. You kinda get used to these quirks, most all laptops have them in one form or another. It's par for the course.
I always use 90 degree angled extensions for all my cables to make things more managable. Right now i have it on a pad and using 90 degree down for usb hdmi and thunderbolt making all the cords run under the laptop and away from the mouse. They are literally $1 to $2 a piece on ebay. Heres a picture of the USB 3 ones but they also make them for everything else.
molokow wrote:
Well, my friends, you are missing the point.
Running around with a 3.5 kg behemoth and a camera seems unrealistic. And, yes, MSI do get it.
If you notice they have taken out all the extra junk gamers do not need.
Ger with the times.
Ok, Edweird, you are a spanner, not a tool.
Sometimes, it can be hard to let ASUS know what does suck.. Just say it.
I have a ASUS mini ITX (for my desktop), and that is an amazing product.
We are not missing the point. We get that you prefer a stripped down machine. Problem is all of the stripping you are suggesting will do little in the realms of weight reduction. Not everyone shares your sentiment. I like all the amenities. I knew that this machine was more of a dektop replacement than an ultra portable solution. Powerful CPUs and GPUs generate heat, to dissipate the heat you need copper. Copper is not light. There are plenty of other solutions on the market, if you want ultra lightweight then maybe you should look to something like a microsoft surface that you can get an I& processor, 512GB SSD and crappy grahics for what you would pay for a G751JT maxed out.
You call it junk that users dont need and I call it necessary. No optical drive? How do I play my old GTA III with no optical drive? Or my old Unreal tournament? They both require a play disk to be inserted. I use all of the installed devices and skipped right by other manufacturers including MSI and others because there was no optical drive. If I had bought one of those then I would have to pack around an external optical drive that is actually heavier so that would go over like a rudder on a ducks azz. I use all of the processing power for multiple applications including barch processing with Adobe CS for 500 images at a whack.
The only thing that sucks is someone who buys something then bashes the product because its not like something else that obviously you should have bought that product instead. I hear the same complaints from people over camera gear. I have a side business as a professional photographer and pro grade cameras and lenses are not only expensive, they are heavy! When Im shooting outdoor sports my go to lens, a canon EF400mm F2.8L when coupled with the Canon EOS 1D Mark IV camera body weighs in at 17 lbs and retails for $15K. I listen to people say how they can get equal images from an 8 oz point and shoot. Then they come crying of why they cant get decent action shots, low light shots, etc. If you want the quality you have to put up the $$ and deal with the weight, otherwise you cant get images like this from 100 yards away. Yes thats olympic team captain Christie Rampone of NY SkyBlue in their WPS inaugural game making Marta of LA Sol look like an idiot. No its not a choke hold, she ran right into it.
JustinThyme wrote:
We are not missing the point. We get that you prefer a stripped down machine. Problem is all of the stripping you are suggesting will do little in the realms of weight reduction. Not everyone shares your sentiment. I like all the amenities. I knew that this machine was more of a dektop replacement than an ultra portable solution. Powerful CPUs and GPUs generate heat, to dissipate the heat you need copper. Copper is not light. There are plenty of other solutions on the market, if you want ultra lightweight then maybe you should look to something like a microsoft surface that you can get an I& processor, 512GB SSD and crappy grahics for what you would pay for a G751JT maxed out.
You call it junk that users dont need and I call it necessary. No optical drive? How do I play my old GTA III with no optical drive? Or my old Unreal tournament? They both require a play disk to be inserted. I use all of the installed devices and skipped right by other manufacturers including MSI and others because there was no optical drive. If I had bought one of those then I would have to pack around an external optical drive that is actually heavier so that would go over like a rudder on a ducks azz. I use all of the processing power for multiple applications including barch processing with Adobe CS for 500 images at a whack.
The only thing that sucks is someone who buys something then bashes the product because its not like something else that obviously you should have bought that product instead. I hear the same complaints from people over camera gear. I have a side business as a professional photographer and pro grade cameras and lenses are not only expensive, they are heavy! When Im shooting outdoor sports my go to lens, a canon EF400mm F2.8L when coupled with the Canon EOS 1D Mark IV camera body weighs in at 17 lbs and retails for $15K. I listen to people say how they can get equal images from an 8 oz point and shoot. Then they come crying of why they cant get decent action shots, low light shots, etc. If you want the quality you have to put up the $$ and deal with the weight, otherwise you cant get images like this from 100 yards away. Yes thats olympic team captain Christie Rampone of NY SkyBlue in their WPS inaugural game making Marta of LA Sol look like an idiot. No its not a choke hold, she ran right into it.
We are all wasting our time here man. I don't get the self loathing he has for his purchase either... I can only speculate it was a gift and he is acting out because it isn't exactly what he wanted.
Anyhow regarding old game disc I've had great success with this product and not juggling them any more. You do need the original disc to be read the first time though. Afterwards it is no longer needed: http://www.slysoft.com/en/gamejackal.html Helps prevent damage to your old disc as well. Important for me I need to keep such things locked up and out of the way due to having little ones. I havn't tested it on Win10 though, don't know why it wouldn't work. Seams not affected by all DRM protection as well, I've yet to have an issue.
joshindaphils wrote:
We are all wasting our time here man. I don't get the self loathing he has for his purchase either... I can only speculate it was a gift and he is acting out because it isn't exactly what he wanted.
Anyhow regarding old game disc I've had great success with this product and not juggling them any more. You do need the original disc to be read the first time though. Afterwards it is no longer needed: http://www.slysoft.com/en/gamejackal.html Helps prevent damage to your old disc as well. Important for me I need to keep such things locked up and out of the way due to having little ones. I havn't tested it on Win10 though, don't know why it wouldn't work. Seams not affected by all DRM protection as well, I've yet to have an issue.
Whats does it do? create an image of the play disc on the HDD? Ive tried other ways before but could never get past the well hidden partition.
