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  • Ha, I still have my IBM ThinkPad but it has never had a working battery in its life with me. The hinge on one side is also still cracked and I could never properly close it.

    Was my first laptop in the mid-2000’s running Windows 95. I got a USB 1.0 Ethernet adapter so I could surf the web on the DSL line we had at home before we finally upgraded to a wireless router.

    Good times. On MySpace, ripping music to the 4GB IDE HDD I had into MusicMatch (before I learned about iTunes), checking news for Halo 3, trying to play games…



  • Hmm…I’ve never noticed much of a difference, even with hand tracking.

    The only issues I’ve had between both in terms of tracking were related to controllers/hands going out of view of the camera.

    If there was a difference, it was very minimal, at least for me.

    That’s good to know about the bottom port. I like that Valve is somewhat future-proofing this right out of the box. I’ve been looking on Steam’s website about this but I can’t see that part. I am on mobile at the moment, so maybe it’s just not loading correctly for me. There’s some numbers on the headset that just aren’t showing up but are pointing to features on the outside of the headset.




  • Black and white pass through is crazy. I really hated that on my Quest 2 but was glad they made it color on the Quest 3. I can actually walk around my house in color and do things when I pause my games. I couldn’t do that as easily in black and white on the Quest 2.

    Feels like there’s going to be a situation like the Steam Deck OLED but with color…? I think I’ll wait on that reason alone. And there will likely be other upgrades too in a refresh a year or two later.

    I was planning on ditching my Quest 3 for this, but doesn’t sound like it. It’s for the best because I don’t want to shell that much on a new headset so soon anyway.






  • Yeah I experienced a lot of stuff that made me feel like HP really doesn’t want people installing another OS on their machines, as far back as the Windows 8 days, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some foolishness at play here. Weird stuff like not letting you properly boot from a USB drive.

    Have you tried connecting to an external monitor or TV using HDMI or VGA? Have you looked up your specific model number and seen what buttons to press to bring up this menu? I’ve had success there before on this.

    With Windows 10 installed, you can search for “UEFI” or “BIOS” and it will bring up an option that will aid you in booting to the UEFI/BIOS from Windows. That may be something to try here too and see if that gets the computer to boot into it and then you can possibly make changes to either make the system wait a few more seconds or show you the screen for the actual buttons to press for a future occurrence.