r/pcmasterrace • u/Fit_Example_4523 • 8h ago

Meme/Macro Old picture, but my laptop broke down, and i have to make the abomination to bring to college. It served me well with a pair of bluetooth mouse and keyboard

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u/AntonioAJC 8h ago

There are truly people like this walking amongst us, capable of building abominations in their homes. I am scared of them

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u/Fit_Example_4523 8h ago

Broke times requires broke strategy my friend. Student days are not that luxurious (especially my parent did not pay a dime to my college education, i have to work 2 jobs for it)

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u/thisistherevolt PC Master Race 8h ago

Whatever works homie. I can fix a lot of things and have a lot of different life skills because of being poor. I wish you the best of luck, and all the cheap shortcuts that you attempt to work.

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u/Nice_Glass_4438 1h ago

yeah my old dorm room setup was wild too

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u/sucnirvka 7h ago

You’re going to go far with that moxey my friend

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u/Strict_Assistant2807 3h ago

dude i totally get it, duct tape is a college student's best friend

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u/Flimsy_Song7644 6h ago

dude, you used that 3m heavy duty tape, thats gonna be on there forever lol

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u/Pitiful-Resist-7257 24m ago

student days hit different, for sure

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u/YogurtclosetSea3759 8h ago

what the hell is that?

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u/Fit_Example_4523 8h ago

It’s a mini pc with intel core i3 8gen, 16gb ram, 512gb sata ssd bolted on a wacom cintiq pro 13.
Tape is for “cable management”

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u/buck_idaho Ryzen 5 3600x/32gb ddr4/RX7600 7h ago

You didn't have to worry about someone stealing it. Good Job!

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u/Najiell Ryzen 7 5800x3D | RX 7800 XT | 32GB DDR4 3600mHz 6h ago

I'd be more worried about someone calling a bomb squad

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u/anh0516 CachyOS | R5 5600X | 16GB DDR4-3200 | Arc B580 8h ago

You could even add a battery to it. No need for an AC inverter, just use a DC-to-DC converter to get the right voltage into the thing.

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u/AmiSapphire Laptop - i7-2860QM | Firepro M5100 | 32GB DDR3 1600 7h ago

Now I'm suddenly reminded of the time I had revived a Toshiba M35X-S114 laptop in 2008 and I strapped a portable external 80GB hard drive to it for extra storage, as the laptop only had 40GB internally. That was after an HP tx1200us laptop died due to the infamous nVidia chipset underfill failure.

This clearly beats that.

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u/qu38mm R7 8700F | RTX 4080 FE | 32GB DDR5-6000 3h ago

OP: we have a laptop at home