I feel like i'm getting more and more frustrated with FW. The forums are starting to break the cammels back. i can't post to customer experience. Our topic on windows for enterprise was locked after i started discussing how to legally purchase windows 11 LTSC through the MS volume lisinceing partner portal.

as some of you may know the AMD frameworks have Microsoft Pluton embeded in to the motherboard. Your TPM is tied to windows 11 if you have to run windows. if you use Framework in the business sector you might use an enterprise version. after posting links to the official MS pages for business to show people where they are located the thread was locked for "Piracy". instead of banning the guy and deleting his comments they locked the entire thread.

FYI you can NOT disable Pluton on framework.

I feel like framework is getting worse not better. you can't order via P.O, you can't set legacy TPM for business still stuck on w10, discussion of LTSC is frowned upon. And while the support isn't Asus or  NewEgg bad but, it isn't stellar either.

https://youtu.be/tE89COeFw7I?si=IKwynsy3JhOqtjaP

I had a FW13 screen fail right out of the box, i had to send multi photos of every single side of the laptop AT different angles. when i worked at big box TV company we usually only need one or two photos where non of the sides were cropped out. and replies between emails asking for more photos could take a day or two or three.

also open source bios isn't looking too likely any time soon but, in years.

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I’d also like to say that i hear System76 has been making strides to hep board level repair for their units and sell parts needed to do repairs from what i hear.

The keyboard of my old Clevo P670 is sticky in parts and i want to clean the complete keyboard system and check every key for functionality.

Is there a good tutorial available, especially for the Clevo ones or even my model?

Since the Acer Predator 21X is pretty much extinct, I thought, I share what it's like having it and post about it. A lot of people didn't like it because it was BGA. but it's still nice seeing this machine because even by today's standards it still can play games wonderfully. It's obviously way out of league when it comes to my brother's Area 51m but as the saying goes old is gold. 

I’m from Turkey and I’m planning to sell my current laptop. 
I came across a few local buyback platforms, and one of the names I saw was CihazSat.com, but I have never used any of these services before.

Has anyone here sold a laptop in Turkey or used any similar buyback services?
Any recommendations or things I should be careful about?

Thanks in advance!

(Dell G7-7790)

I know it's an old laptop, but I'm disabled and my wife and I are seniors on a very fixed/tight income, so getting a new laptop is out of the question. I need my laptop going because there's important information on it and the battery is dead. 

Anyone here got any suggestions on where to get a new ac charging cord - that is the correct one? When you look online, none of the charging cords advertised give you a look INSIDE of the round charging cord connector (which I believe is 2 or 3 pins). Does anyone here have an old Inspiron laptop like mine, that could post a picture of the inside of the round plug (that goes into the back of the laptop).

Thanks in advance to all who offer help and advice!!!

Hope this is the correct sub forum for this thread. If not move it to the correct place. Thanks @Reciever

Fractal have just released their first chair. Looks classy and clean. No big flashy logo's and not so gamer-like in design. 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-11/age-verification-search-engines/105516256

Starts here, ends with big brother 

Edit is it real or AI BS...who can tell.

This is a school issued chromebook, and im graduating middle school a few weeks. Ive had some old photos on my chromebook that were stored locally, but about 7 months to a year ago, I permanently deleted them, and would like to know if there was any way to get them back? 

After looking online some people said it could be possible using linux, some said it wasnt possible at all, due to chromebooks not having a system like windows to recover permanently deleted files. Id like to know, is it a 100% guarentee that they are gone forever?

Seems like Ken might have had some health issues so I hope he is ok at least.

the day i always feared just happened. the passing of my dear father 

theres tears on my eyes and my soul struggles with anxiety..

i havent been online for a week . my dad passed away sunday on dec 3 he was 90.

it feels so unreal, like a dream i cant believe it. it hurts so much and i miss him every day. 

i knew it was going to happen but i wasnt expecting it that soon.

may he rest in peace dear and lovely father..

i think i am in the right time. because i watched how the world has evolved. 

like video games not sure what a kid that was born 10 years ago feel about games.

that i mean was i watched evolved from the atari 2600 like basketball game the person was just like made out of 3-4 lines. to now be able to acturally see their shoes in great detail. i think you appreaciate more hhow games evolved.

new technology was coming out and that was exciting.

and also i can say i lived when there was no cell phones.. i was out playing with friends. you had to go to their houses if wanted to talk to them.

theres this time where i would of also liked if i had live like in the western era. in the 50's too

i was born in the late 70's and love it.. but i also think about how things would be in the future with technology how far we would get as human species.

whats yours.?

Rtx 3060 (115w) (overclocked to 170 core 140 memory)

i7-11800h 4.2ghz 8 cores

16gb ddr4 3200mhz ram

1Tb nvme gen 4

Here is The Witcher 3

Maxed settings Maxed AA Maxed hair works 4k

AVG OF 38 FPS

Here is Optimised 4k

Hovers around 55-70fps

I have a budget of $500. I want a light, simple and comfortable laptop for daily work. 99% of the work is done on the web browser.
Any programming, design, etc. heavy programs are not used.
The prices are the same between these two laptops, which one do you recommend to buy?
(or you can offer another model for this price,
I've been using Dell since 2013 and have never had a problem so I looked at Dell)

1.  İnspiron 16-5635

2. İnspiron 15-3535

Thanks!

Dell Latitude 5511 15.6" (latest model) Core i7-10850H (6 cores) 512GB PCIe SSD 16GB RAM FHD (1920x1080) 300 Nit WiFi 6 AX + BT Win 10 Pro (Refurbished)

these are on EBAY used.

Dell Precision 3551 i7-10850H 16GB 256GB SSD 15.6" Nvidia P620 Win 11 Pro

or

Dell LATITUDE 5511 15.6" FHD I7-10850H 1TB SSD 32GB GeForce MX250

am still using the dell precision m4600 i7 2760qm.
 

I have to say it is a nice step up as well as having the extra outputs and was worth it.

I use it every day and love the features of it, the speed of it for doing my work etc. In real world testing, my dell is just as fast as the M1 series apple at doing creative work (plenty fast).  It has a great keybord for writing articles, books, etc. and the screen is nice, bright and has great color renditions, (contrary to popular tests).  I have my color calibrated using a spider 3 and it prints what I see. 

The only place it's lagging is doing video work. While it gets the job done, it's a bit slow on the export etc. Enter the Pocket Ai RTX 500 eGPU.  It's a super portable eGPU that connects to the laptop and increases it's graphics processing power by approx. 50 percent to 60 percent, using the notebook's display. I have read tests and for example, playing certain games, the frame rate goes from 20-25 fps to 80-95 fps.  That's a good jump in performance.  

I wil be ordering this unit instead of replacing my entire PC. It's a much more affordable option and there is nothing out there that I feel would suit me as well as my dell. 

Video Card AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB Metal 3 mxm link:

https://it.aliexpress.com/i/1005006297497977.html

AMD Radeon Pro WX7100 8GB MXM Metal 2  mxm link:

https://it.aliexpress.com/item/1005005104995584.html

Reason for request : Hackintosh project 

but am amazed and stunned how this can be created in such scale.  i have heard that there will be a time when it will be impossible to shrink any further

@Mr. Fox check out 13:50

11 seems to look prettier but having to make extra clicks or typing to get to things

Couple things I am looking for

- Traditional start menu

- Quick launch bar

- Ability to not-combine labels for faster switching and visible title content of each active tab in each browser

- Small icon on task bar to shrink overall size of task bar

- Traditional right-click menu without icons and all the options, rather

- This PC (cannot be locked to the task bar?) so I have to click folder, then click this PC in order to jump to that menu.

- Rich text documents?

I haven't seen many complaints about these, so maybe I just don't know how to access them, or I am one of the last hold outs to use them.

I have seen a couple of applications to mimic the function, but is this all unavailable in Windows 11?

Again I have not used 11 enough to rate it overall, but it seems like it is supposed to look more like Mac OS, looses some functionality.

not sure what is the safe temp for this card. the highest temp i get is no more than 65C.

say if the max temp is 90C and i overclock it but keep it at 65C would that wear the GPU down.

i think i already had asked long time ago. am started to play some games and i must lower resolution tpo 720p and lowered graphics.

Along with myself, @Sandy Bridge, @Reciever, and @Hiew have been involved in this project.  I'll give extra props to @Sandy Bridge who brought along a tool specifically designed to pull data from XenForo forums.  Without that, we would have been basically left with HTTrack, which takes way longer... and much less of the forum would have been able to have been archived with the level of resources that we have.

We've been working over the past few days to grab as much as possible.  We have not yet captured every single post, but we have hit the areas that appeared to be of the most value and also areas that were requested by other NBR users.  (We are actually still actively pulling down content and will continue until NBR shuts down.)

I'm still working to tie everything together and I will edit this post with updates as new sections are hooked in.

This was a quick and dirty job, to some degree.  TechTarget didn't give us that much time, and their web application firewall which starts throwing errors if you download too many pages too quickly also slowed down progress.  For some forums, we only pulled threads with a certain number of posts (varying from forum to forum) and excluded the smaller threads.  Also, I wanted to get something live for everyone as quickly as possible and I'm still working through cleaning some stuff up.  You may see oddities while browsing threads — missing images, links from one thread to another not going to the right place, and maybe even a small number of threads that are cut off or otherwise "damaged".

There are some known but fixable issues that will be addressed over the coming days and weeks.  Threads downloaded with the XenForo archiver tool are not paginated, so your browser might choke on very long threads.  (Internet Explorer seems to handle these the best, if you can believe it.)  The Dell business laptops section (pulled via HTTrack) also has issues with some attachments and the "up arrow" link next to quotes, and it's still trying to pull a few files from the live NBR server when you view one of these threads.  If you see anything else odd that seems like it could be fixed, feel free to let me know.

Bear with me as I work to integrate all of the downloaded threads into a cohesive archive.  I'm working on a simple tool to link threads downloaded by @Sandy Bridge's tool into the forum/thread list that I grabbed with HTTrack.  This project is dealing with literally millions of tiny files so there is also some just waiting for stuff to be transferred around as I get it all prepped for hosting.

When the integrated archive is ready, any threads that were not pulled down before the cutoff will still be present in the list.  I will have them point to archive.org, which hopefully has a record of most of the threads.  Also, I'm going to see about changing the top-right search function (currently pointing to "live" NBR) to just perform a Google site search.  I will also clean up the presentation somewhat — removing any hint of the ads, non-functional bits like the logon link, and so forth.

I don't think that I should be the sole holder of the archive.  For NBR regulars who would like to download an offline copy, contact me via PM and I will arrange it, once the archive is in just about the best shape that I think that I can get it in.

If TechTarget issues a takedown request, obviously I will have to comply.  I'm hoping that they will leave it alone.  I'm hosting the archive at my own expense; there are no ads and I am not taking donations.  By taking the forum offline, they are not in a position to profit off of the material anymore, so it might as well be made available.

The current status of the archive is:

Forums integrated into the archive:

• Dell business laptops (Precision, Latitude, Vostro)

Forums available to browse but not yet fully integrated into the archive:

• Hardware, software, and accessories
  • Hardware components and aftermarket upgrades
  • Accessories
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    • eGPU / external graphics discussion
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    • Security and antivirus software
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  • Chome OS and software
  • Networking and wireless
  • Notebook cosmetic modifications and custom builds
  • Desktop hardware
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• Notebook news, reviews, and deals
  • Notebook news and reviews
  • Notebook and tech bargains
• Notebook manufacturers
  • Acer
    • Packard Bell
    • Gateway
      • eMachines
  • Alienware
    • Alienware M11x
    • 2015+ Alienware 13/15/17
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    • Alienware M15x
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    • Alienware Area 51/Aurora and Legacy Systems
    • Alienware desktops
  • Apple and Mac OS X
  • Asus
    • Asus reviews and owner's lounges
    • Asus gaming notebooks
  • Dell
    • Dell XPS
  • Fujitsu
  • Gigabyte and Aorus
  • HP
    • HP business class notebooks
  • Lenovo
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  • MSI
    • MSI reviews and owner's lounges
  • Panasonic
    • Toughbook buy, sell, and trade forum
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    • Sager and Clevo reviews and owner's lounges
    • Reseller feedback forum
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    • VAIO / Sony reviews and owner's lounges
  • Other manufacturers

You can Ctrl+F for the name of a thread that you are interested in if you want to take a look at it.