Forums > Living in Kunming > Affordable, powerful laptop or desktop Why are people so goddamn full of themselves on these forums. TICexpats, I've been around in the IT world long enough to know that that's simply not true. Can you stop writing abrasive answers into threads that you don't know shit about?
AlexKMG and blobbles: thanks for the advice. I'll look into those hardware marts as soon as I get the money ready. I've built plenty of my own computers before so I think if I can find the right components cheaply, I'll be able to make a nice machine.
However, I was still hoping to get a laptop so I could take it whenever I move homes (I feel this could be a regular thing) and wouldn't have to sell it everytime I travel longer distances. Any ideas there?
Forums > Living in Kunming > Affordable, powerful laptop or desktop I'm looking for a dirt-cheap but powerful laptop or desktop computer to satisfy my guilty pleasure of gaming. I don't care much about the build quality or noise/heat production, as long as the price is low and as long as it can run CIV5, SC2, anno1701 and TF2. Those are all not the very latest of games, so it should be possible.
Back home, 800 euro would buy me a brand-new no-brand computer with the latest specs from a guy who would put them together in the back of his truck. A normal PC with those specs would've cost me 1800 euro. The battery performance was lamentable and the heat and noise production very high. But I used it as a portable workstation rather than a mobile computer, so that was mostly fine.
Any ideas? I'm sure Chinese can pull off something similar? Or are there any good markets in Kunming where I can just buy the components at wholesale price and then put together the computer myself?
Forums > Food & Drink > Restaurants you 'love to hate' 1 you live in the backwaters of china, what do you expect? the best western food with imported ingredients for a lower price? go try mixian and chao cai or go back the place you came from.
2 is it me or is billdan in his enormous rant continually contradicting himself? or is that extreme sarcasm that is lost on me? anyway, your rant was harder for me to get through than one of the delicious pizzas I've had at Barbara's and the box.
3 when it comes to pizza's, Americans and Europeans never agree. I hate papa Joe's even though Americans squirm when it's even just mentioned. Ok, duck for the shitstorm.
Forums > Living in Kunming > "Lazy" English teachers? I meant graduates not students. And we're making 3 times more than such locals.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Cycling in Kunming Another tip: I have a hybrid bike with Schwalbe Marathon Plus tyres and have yet to have my first flat in 15,000 km. At 50 dollars a piece they are expensive but well worth the investment.
Rural Yunnan township takes flak for alcohol ban
发布者don't forget that Dulong is a heavily Christian area, AND that drinking there is a serious issue. You can compare it to the droughts and the alcohol bans in both the US and in the Nordic countries in the early 20th century, when drinking had half of the country on its ass. Or Kunming.
Study: Re-greening of China possibly not so green
发布者Refer to this ghostwritten blog post for a discussion of this topic elsewhere.
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Getting Away: Winter hiking on Yunnan's Laojun Mountain
发布者I'm sure the lakc of human habitation is because of the strict park law enforcement. How did you get in? You normally need to obtain a permit.
Food prices across China continue to soar
发布者"However, the RMB has, despite dropping recently, grown overall against foreign currency, so the real cost in global terms has risen even further, perhaps 15x and 6x. Yes, there has been inflation, but that happens everywhere and not 15x in 15 years, ie. 100% per year!"
That doesn't sound right. If you're consuming domestically, you can't state that food prices have actually risen a multiple of the actual inflation because of a difference of RMB vs foreign currency. At least that's not a good indication of economic situations.
This only holds true in the eyes of the few who shop in Yunnan using foreign currency (I guess importers are feeling it).
Life in Kunming: Urban gardening with James Osborne
发布者love your garden James