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I would have thought an i7 would be the minimum requirement.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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The difference is very small. The i7s have hyperthreading and a bit more cache, that's it. You pay $60 extra for that.
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i7s feel a lot quicker. I have one of each, an i5 and an i7, and often have to build an entire Linux kernel. The i7 is noticeably quicker IMO.
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That's because you're building a linux kernel. It doesn't matter for gaming or regular single-threaded compilation.
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I see, so if its a Linux kernel its built with a multithreaded compiler/assembler and if its a windows app it isn't?
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There is an option somewhere in visual studio to do a multithreaded build, but it's not enabled by default and (perhaps because) it doesn't mix with precompiled headers, minimum rebuild, and bunch of other options that I don't know off the top of my head.
Meanwhile in linux land, there's make -j and gcc -pipe and whatnot and it just works.
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OK, fair enough.
I had a quad i5 PC in a company I worked with a few years back. That was an impressive machine.
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We bought our son a Lenovo Y50 in August to start his College career. It had an I7Q (4 cores, versus the H with 2 cores), 8 Gb of Ram and a very nice display (although not the 4K one). I am jealous and nearly ordered one for myself. Nice machine.
There was another Lenovo that I nearly bought until I started reading reviews...then started searching again until I found the Y50.
Why Lenovo?.. I have used several as my work machine (lot's of travel) and I find their quality to be decent, and durable.
Good luck with your search, my only real advice is to narrow your requirements, then read reviews from multiple sites before making your decision.
Ken
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I also use Lenovo at work but I am specifically after a desktop and their range of them is limited. I hate working with a laptop and my existing ultrabook rarely gets turned on now that we travel with pads.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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A while ago I seem to remember using my email address to sign up to some game or other - I think it was one of those 'pokie' games on FarceBook - in order to test something (it wasn't working for Mrs Maxxx so I was trying a 'everyone or just me' approach.
since then I get several emails every day from various gambling sites with their wonderful offers (give us $10 and we'll match it! that sort of thing)
The question is; should I use the 'unsubscribe' link in these bastard's emails?
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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If it was "it" that would be easy - but I get several messages a day - it seems there are a lot of gambling sites out there!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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They are probably legitimate gambling sites, they don't need to scam you as they will make more out of you if you join, so unsubscribing may work but I would not bet on it.
Check if the sender address changes regularly, getting around the simplistic junk filter.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: I would not bet on it
Oh ha-di-ha ha!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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I never use an unsubscribe option unless it's for a site/service that I have specifically filled out a form to subscribe to.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Me either normally but these are getting annoying!@
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Find some recognizible text, subject, domain or anything else that you can put in your filter rule and simply move them all to junk as they come (and don't forget to mark them as read so they don't poke you with bold numbers.
I use it from various "enhancement drugs" spam that bypass my filters.
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Oh, they're already filtered into a spam folder, but it just annoys me that they are there at all
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Next time test out the FB crap with a throw away email from sites like Mailinator[^] et al.
Jeremy Falcon
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I'm pretty persistent in reporting unsolicited emails to SpamCop/[^].
I don't know if it makes a difference, but it makes me feel a little bit better that it might, possibly, someday, in a galaxy far, far away, at least give one person something to do on a Friday morning 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I once answered an ad for freelance work from a religious organization which proceeded to spam me with requests for donations. After repeated requests to be taken off their mailing list I wrote a program that sent bulk emails to them.
It fired off a hundred emails with the same message "I have repeatedly asked to be removed from your email list to no avail, so now I demand that you remove me. If I continue to receive unwanted emails from you I will increase my response by orders of one hundred every time I receive an unwanted email."
One salvo of a hundred emails and I never heard from them again. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
Simply Elegant Designs Jim<</xml>
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Clicking the unsubscribe link is like letting them know that your email address is valid and you read your mail, ie asking for more spam. I agree with most of the other ideas to just ignore it and use a decent spam filter.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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This is probably most of interest to @newtonsaber, since I know he has problems with his.
My 2012 Nexus 7 had "sluggish moments" with V4.4 of Android, but the upgrade to 5.0.2 really slugged it. Almost unusable at times.
Looks like I have a setup that works though, now.
1) Disable Google Now. (This seems like a common partial fix)
2) Turn off WiFi, plug in to charge, and leave overnight. (This apparently triggers a change to fstrim at midnight. Something to do with the NAND memory but I haven't looked too closely...) In the morning, turn WiFi back on.
2) Disable Developer Options. It was just a thought... But it seems to help.
3) Turn off, properly.
4) Clear the system partition cache instructions[^]
Turn off again, and power up fully.
It won't be fast immediately (it seems to bed itself in?), but after a period of a couple of hours, mine is now at least as fast as it was under V4.3
Let me know if this helps you!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Not entirely related but someone told me Currys/PC World are getting rid of their demo 2013 nexuses for £50ish. Don't know whether this means the public will have had their filthy mitts all over them, and you need to do a hard reset to get the demo software off them, but something of a bargain!
I paid £130 for a refurbed one last month. It's good.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Rob Philpott wrote: the public will have had their filthy mitts all over them
Worse: the staff... 
They are in my experience the least knowledgeable and most inexperienced technical sales people I have met in retail. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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