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Time to treat my GBC..

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I have to admit, it took me a good 5 minutes to pluck up the courage to open the package as it arrived in just 4 days from China.
 

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Welp, got a decent refund this year thanks to babby and marriage, so gonna use some of the extra cash to replace my HP x360 laptop I've had for about 2 years now. The screen has a crack in it so no more touchscreen and it's not the fastest thing in the world, so this time I'm opting for something with a bit more dedicated power...

A used 2017 Razer Blade 14, for $700. Has an i7 7700hq, 16GB of RAM, 256GB NVMe, and a GTX 1060, which will be miles better than the Ryzen 5 2500u and it's Vega 8 APU in the HP. I could've gotten something a bit better for just a little bit more, but I'm not planning on using this for hardcore gaming or anything especially (that's my desktop :P), I just wanted something with a decent amount of performance behind it in case I wanted to do some gaming while watching the babby, that's also fairly light and compact so I'm not lugging heavy stuff everywhere.


EDIT: Also ordered some more thermal paste, so I can repaste the CPU and GPU when it shows up :)
Welp, showed up today...super poorly packaged. Barely had any packing materials, and what little it did have wasn't even wrapped around the laptop itself. The thing was just banging around in the box when I picked it up.

Thankfully nothing was broken or borked, everything seems to be working fine (though had a RAM access issue when trying to clone the stock drive in this, but thankfully that was just my USB drive being fucky and not the RAM). Swapped the NVMe to my 500GB HP EX900 one, and everything is running great :yay:

The thing was in super nice condition, too. I bought some compressed air and such to clean out the aluminum fins next to the fan, but they were practically pristine so I didn't even bother. The thermal paste was also still pretty decent, but I replaced it anyways cuz repasting is always a good idea when you buy used stuff.

My only complaint so far is how goddamn loud the fans get in this thing when it's running at full tilt, obnoxiously loud :lol: But nothing I didn't already expect, with a laptop with these specs in such a compact shell.
 

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I got a Projector for some home cinema.
Then I decided hey I need a fire stick for streaming movies so I bought that. Then I though hey I want to play my switch on this, but I didn't want the hassle of moving my dock around so I bought another dock plus some accessories(joycons, 2 charging grips, 2 switch power cords).
After that, I decided to add my PS2 slim, and thought I need to upgrade it, so I purchased PS2toHdmi cable and I searched around for a PS2 clear case to make it more appealing, but that was difficult to find, finally found someone selling one from the middle east.

So lately I bought:

1. 1080p projector
2. Switch dock
2. 2 charging grips
3. 2 switch charging cables
4. Pair of joycons
5. Amazon fire stick
6. PS2toHdmi
7. PS2 slim smoke ghost case

I think getting a projector was probably a bad idea.
 

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