So I went shopping today, and ended up settling on a Dell Inspiron 15 7000 2-in-1.
There’s no built-in SD card slot, but I can always get an adapter.
Curious choice, I had an Inspiron 15 2-in-1 temporarily but was having horrific heat issues. What are the specs on yours?
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I have to say, I’m surprised to see that a 2-in-1 has replaceable components (I’ve been digging through the manual), it meets pretty much all of the points on my list from a few posts back. I’m also surprised to see such a small battery, but that’s a sacrifice that comes with an extra drive bay. Speaking of, you have an extra drive bay, but only 1 drive. It’s up to you if you want to buy an extra drive purely for the isolation of the OS, but the option is there for you. You went for an i5 so temps shouldn’t be a problem, but I’d still monitor them and see what happens.
If you want a good temp monitor that is light and doesn’t get in the way, I’d recommend RealTempGT with the below settings (you just won’t have a GPU readout since you don’t have one). Make sure to open RealTempGT from the zip as there’s a few programs in there.
Once you’ve set it up, just monitor the temps in your task tray for a few days and see how they behave.
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I did. I don’t mean that mine is worse than others. I’m just complaining about the quality nowadays comparing to let’s say 10-20 years ago. And not gonna return it unless I go nuts with the screws.
I mean that my new TV probably won’t work 10 years. As I said somewhere above I would have never replaced my old TV with a new one but my old one had to replace the older one.
Probably also too early to complain about the resolution and the colours after I only fixed channels in analogue quality. I’ll let you know as soon as I see all In Full HD.
Sorry for the fuss I’ve made. I’ve gone crazy with the screws.
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Don’t be sorry!
That’s what we here for, listening to each other companies and give smart advise on it. 
Can’t say that. My TV before was an old tube TV with very unique ideas of colouring and interesting creation of proportions. 
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The most glorious sound I have heard to date was the sound of our old CRT samshing when we got rid of it at the junkyard. We had a CRT until 2016…let that sink in.
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Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy 
No. I found the right translation. 
Ok, I give you this, the sound of the new TVs is just awful. But that’s way I connect it with the music sound system.
Cathode Ray Tube lol
For a moment I thought you meant operational sound, they’re silent lol. I hate that high pitch whine of a CRT. Their sound quality is rubbish because they have to have tiny speakers that face backwards and usually rely on a wall for reflection.
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I have a harman cardon receiver and nubert speakers.
The only thing what is annoying, that after my bluray player died, it was really hard to find a player in the cheap category that still had audio option. It’s only digital now. Found one last piece in the shop DVD player. At least I got an extra discount for it.
Had my laptop at my PC Service for maintenance.
It’s an Aldi Medion Laptop, turning 8 this year, still on Windows 7.
And everything works fine. 
Last update was 2017, so no wonder I had never any trouble with updates
He said, I just can continue using it. He not even sees any problems, that Windows 7 won’t be supported in near future.
So all good!
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Hey my parents have the same one! 
They do have Windows 8 though
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More Dell news. That leaked roadmap from a while ago might be legit. They’ve released the new XPS 13, which on paper seems like a total animal. They’ve improved a lot of what was wrong with it. It now has a just-over-4K screen option because it’s finally a 16:10 display, edge to edge keyboard. 10th gen G class processors (e.g. i7 1065G7), and more importantly, they’ve said they’ll be releasing a version with the crazy 32GB 3733MHz RAM that the 2-in-1 has. It’s essentially the same as the 2-in-1, except it has a socketed drive and is a proper laptop. Unfortunately they still haven’t managed to fit a D-GPU to it. Though if Razer can cram a 1650 Max Q in a 13" with the same CPU, why shouldn’t Dell (who by the way always overpower their CPUs past stock and stick overpowered stock CPUs in laptops all the time, the previous XPS 13 had a 6 core option)?
This XPS was on the roadmap, what I’m also starting to see is the current XPS 15s getting more and more discounted. To me that says that they’re trying to get rid of as many of the current ones as possible before they release the new one. And my guess is that they will release a new 15 soon as it too is on the roadmap.
All of that means that the 17 may well actually be happening and I’m struggling to not get hyped.
This was the roadmap:
At the time of the leak, all the dotted boxes hadn’t happen (the yellow were in development and both came out). So far we’ve had the 7390 come out (the outgoing XPS 13 with the 6 core i7 option), the 7390 2-in-1 come out (which I posted about a few months ago and mentioned a moment ago) and the 7300 came out a couple of days ago (the one I’ve been talking about in this post). That means that we should be seeing a new 15 in March/April and with some luck, the 17 in June/July. I’m also interested in what the dual screen thing might be, but the 17 is my goal.
I just hope DDR5 RAM gets released and Samsung release their PCIe gen4 SSDs. If it’s not at some point this year, I’ll wait until the next cycle when laptops will be able to utilise DDR5.
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This is interesting since my current Dell laptop is almost six years old already. Looking at those specs however, I’m afraid the new models will be quite unaffordable
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Oh definitely, the XPS is top of the line, always overpriced. The Inspiron is where you want to be if you can do without a 4K screen and an i9. I was talking about this a few months ago, but you can get the Inspiron with exactly the same spec as an XPS and pay a few hundred less. The XPS is only if you want extreme build quality and an i9 with a 4K screen. Both of which are needless overkill.
Also, an i9 requires some technical knowledge to make it work at optimal conditions, which defeats the point of paying obscene amounts of money for a laptop that you’d have to fiddle with. If you’re paying that much, it should be ready out of the box.
EDIT:
It’s overpriced , but it’s got nothing on Apple (gotta get that jab in 
), but it’s also a bit less expensive (I don’t want to say cheaper) than the closest Lenovo which typically has marginally worse specs.
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I agree about 4K, but how come i9 is so useless then? Surely it would make the system faster right
It makes the system a right beast…if it can be cooled properly. A ~15mm thick laptop can’t cool something that outputs so much heat, there’s nowhere to put a beefy heatsink and powerful fans. As a result, it runs hard for a few mins (assuming you’re doing something that actually needs an i9 and not reading emails) and then it gets so hot that the system has to dial back the clock frequency to prevent the CPU from literally burning out (thermal throttling). Lowering the clock speed makes the PC slower.
The clock is essentially a square wave signal used to synchronise processes inside the PC. So for example, it could execute instructions on the rising edge of the square wave. If the clock for instance is 5GHz, it can execute 5 billion instructions per seccond (random numbers for the sake of a simple example), but if it gets hot and throttles down to say 2GHz, it can only do 2 billion instructions per second.
There are ways to minimise thermal throttling in a laptop so thin, but never a way to truly get rid of it, only to prolong when it happens. They usually involve opening the laptop and changing the thermal paste for something better (or even replacing it with liquid metal [not for the inexperienced]) and using software to change the voltage going to the CPU (undervolting). This risks voiding the warranty with some companies and flat out destroys it with others.
Then there’s the path that I want to take. It involves spending a long time to design my own heatsink to fit inside the laptop and then contacting a manufacturing company to get it machined for god know’s how much money since it’s a one off order and not bulk mass production.
Like I said, an i9 in a laptop is worth it only if it can be cooled properly or if you’re willing to put in the work, because once you do, it becomes a destroyer of worlds. But, again, that is not something anyone should be expected to do on something so expensive. It’s like buying a Rolls Royce and rebuilding the entire engine the moment you take delivery of it.
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Hahaha what a joke it is then. It’s a pretty strange move to put such a new processor on the market and not have it even work properly. Good luck if you give it a try, but be careful. You know how much technology likes to bite you in the ass
The processor works just fine, it’s laptop manufacturers who put it in devices that can’t cool it properly for the sake of marketing. A couple of years ago when Apple first did it with the original laptop i9, it throttled so badly that it performed worse than the lower-spec i7 that was a few hundred cheaper.
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Well that says a lot about how much they care about good products
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