Bugs Bunny

It's an x64 processor . And I do have the keyboard attachment. It's basically a laptop but has a few tablet perks to go along with it. Someone once said that the best way to get an answer on the Internet was to say something wrong and have people correct you. And I'm going to prove him right yet again. It is an x86 processor, but with 64 bit extensions. What many call 64 bit and say as x64 is, in fact, x86_64, also called amd64 in many Linux distros (since AMD originally made the 64 bit additions). 32 bit is x86, as it is just the x86 instruction set. If your Surface didn't have a 64 bit processor in this day and age, that would make it the butt of outdated technology jokes everywhere. Computer naming conventions can be weird, especially when dealing with CPU architectures. Some excellent examples are MIPS, with MIPS I through MIPS IV, then MIPS32 (release 1-5) and MIPS64, and ARM, with AArch64/A64 for 64 bit (used in ARMv8-A), AArch32/A32 for 32 bit (used in ARMv2 through ARMv8-R, although Cortex has 6-M through 8-R, while legacy is 2 through 6). Confused? Good, because that's just the tip of the iceberg for computer terminology (though you probably won't deal with CPU architectures often if you aren't compiling programs). For more confusion, head on over to expansion bus acronyms, where you deal with PCI (3.3v and 5v), PCI-X, ISA, AGP, AMR, CMR (good luck remembering AMR vs CMR when you have to identify them), PCIe (v1, 2, and 3 with x1, x4, x8, and x16), mini PCI and PCIe, ExpressCard, PC Card, PCMCIA, and Thunderbolt (though really just an external extension of the PCIe bus). Programming isn't my job, but dealing with all these connectors is (and that's not including your RAM, storage media, external peripheral, and CPU connections), although the declining amount of XP and below systems I have to deal with has made things much easier. That was going to happen, but luckily the board was smart enough to stop it after seeing what happened to Palm.

What are you looking for in a laptop? Are you needing something that just does MS Office and will let you watch cat videos on Youtube? Or do you plan on playing games? (If so, what games?) Also, what is your price range? Kinda hard to recommend laptops without any background information. Any reason for changing the laptop you're looking at? From the perspective of someone who regularly deals with fixing computers, I can confidently say their consumer laptops have gone downhill over the past few years. Their cooling tends to be subpar, they give you 1 million different screw sizes (well, that's a lot of laptops, but some brands tend to make it easier by having just a few standard sizes), and unless you reinstall Windows after you get your machine, they throw in a few extra gigabytes of bloatware. Their desktops, while not as bad, use proprietary motherboards. One I worked on recently had some god awful 6 pin, 4pin, and some other connector combination for power delivery (I had to remove the charge from the 6 pin connector that was somehow still in it and messing things up-it would not turn on, beep, activate the LEDs, etc. after adding a DVR card, and needless to say, it gave me a bit of a jolt). I tend to stay away from recommending HP's stuff purely from a diagnostics and repair standpoint now. Also, Secure Boot can be disabled (although if you want to dual boot with Windows 8, you have to apply a registry patch to remove the watermark), and must be disabled if you ever want to fix a Windows 8 system. Although it may help against rootkits, Secure Boot makes booting from things like Hirens and MRI not possible until disabled (and problems in Metro are better fixed by a system refresh than any currently available utilities).

Granted, but it's so active your computer crashes due to lack of system resources. I wish I could get banned. You missed the perfect opportunity to bring up SimCity 2013.

Laptops can be good if they have the right specs. I recommend any cooling pad that works. My friend had his laptop die because we forgot to plug in the cooling pad (we were playing SC4 at the time lol).

I wish I could make custom signs like that.

Technically, files can never truly be erased off a hard drive-there will always be remains of the files. In fact, "deleting" a file actually just tells the computer that it is allowed to overwrite the files, so if they never get overwritten, they are never actually gone. You can pay someone to get the files back, but that would cost a LOT of money. Make your own account, and make sure your files are protected so your friend can't access it and ruin your game again.

It's amazing how much of a fanbase that 1 game can create.

Is than an arco at 1:01 like the ones in SC2K? I've missed those great population boosters.

Growing skyscrapers takes awhile if you don't go super fast, or are still learning. So, plopable landmarks are sometimes the way to go. Plus, you have to consider that if it didn't grow in exactly the place you wanted, you would have to keep demolishing the buildings that grew there until eventually it sprung up or you just got tired of deleting buildings (which costs money, and lots of it when you demolish skyscrapers, especially over and over again) and put down the landmark version. Personally, I prefer landmarks for convenience of plopping in the right place and not having to demolish building over and over until I get that one.

I remember RCT2 and RCT3. I played RCT1 at a friends house, but when I got RCT2, he came over to my house to play it. When RCT3 came out, I was like "THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER!" I just wish it was compatible with Windows 7. I have to use my old XP laptop to play it, and the hardware is beginning to fail on it.

How do you get a 6 lane avenue? You have a beautiful city.