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I'd find ones that offer long warranties, aren't SMR (or any other stacked/sliced/mixed whatever) and have low rpm.

Jensen (to Elon): Ha! In 1000 years, your brain isn't going to be guiding life like mine!

Looked in my garage.. and behold... I got nuthin.

Well, depending, weather can wreak havoc even on "the best". And these to rank up there amongst the best. So hopefully they are in good shape. Don't know how much "the score" was for, but these are normally pretty high end.

Outside of the "few biggie" providers, many of the smaller independents use a Roundcube UI (well, many do anyhow). So, up to you if you want to go outlook.com, yahoo.com, etc. or go independent. For example, I have an old Dreamhost shared web hosting account, and they use Roundcube (pretty...

Shoot, there's a whole 128MB of DDR in that. Can't wait for the XTX version.

Russia's internal f00f and fdiv divisions say otherwise. Change is coming.

Somewhat getting us back to "ontopic", when it comes to "old"... Mac hw tends to retain value better than generic Windows PCs. Like, significantly better. At least, that's my observation.

Every year, usually around Christmas, you could renew your contract and get the latest flaship for 1 penny. I would buy phones for the whole household at that time. It was a different era.

Phone without "connection" isn't really a phone. Now, I suppose there were people jumping from contract to contract and incurring switching penalties and the like, but I figure, I came out on top with regards to total out of pocket.

Way offtopic, but I do miss my days of extending my 2yr phone contract and getting the latest and greatest flagship phone for a penny. There was a time when I practically never paid for a phone, and it was for the "good phones".

I wonder now that "thermonuclear" 12th+ gen is constrained, that maybe air cooling will become a bigger thing??

I get it, you think I'm lying. That's on you really though. I mean, the question was asked, and, though not to your expectations, I answered it. When you cuss out people or slam them without knowledge, what is that called? I watched as the costs rose 10x, then 20x, etc. With that said, I...

Just saying. My guess is most have never had an all Mac shop, so you're used to "whatever" with regards to operational expense. I lived "the migration". I've seen the result.

I'm talking operational expense per employee, amount spent per month. Has zero to do with machine cost, which, while bigger on the Apple side, it's not that big of a difference (nothing in the high multiplier difference anyhow, especially not over the past 5 years or so).

The whole Microsoft "required" eco-system and 3rd party products (including a ton of "security" products unique to MS) that suddenly become "required" when making the switch. It's maddening. Same business, same amount of work being done, same amount of revenue being produced, but with a 40x...

No. Trust me, it's not even close to the same. Not even close. And the dozens of "extras" outside that are "required" now as well. It's insane.

Again, not my idea. Going from minimal Windows (simple AD DC + backup DC just for ids, groups, DNS, DHCP) to full o365, ATP, E5, all the bells and whistles, which, our secops team says is completely necessary to stave off "attacks" (etc.) and for full feature functionality. IMHO, it's a lot...

40x what it cost per employee when we were Mac only.

Having worked for a "full kool-aid" Micorosoft shop, they'd say that after you add all the extras to your MS business env, it's pretty dang costly. So, can you run Windows on the cheap? I'd say "yes", but the "experts" tell a different story about how much it really costs to have a "good"...

Perhaps just a "poor person's" perspective, but the "class" of user that can afford $1500 is the same as one that can afford $2500 (to me).

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While I like techpowerup, it's not complete. So, still not the silver bullet. So, I'd say use a curator like UFD for fuller coverage... and I like it because I can play it in my ear while doing other things (usually at 1.7 speed).

Correct.... so visit a whole bunch of different sites, many, because you don't know which ones will have have "this or that". But, since you "went there", list the sites you use please.

I listen to UFD Hot News. IMHO, probably one of the shortest tech news summaries. However, if you all know of something better, I'm always willing to move on to something better.

Yeah, they do have "something" with their iGPU/QSV and their memory controllers, but compute wise, they gave up with the super hot + clock work and utilizing "crap cores". Reminds me a whole lot of the Netburst era. Warning: Intel recovered from their last big mistake (P4 Netburst era) in a...

No. AMD announced it's biggest marketshare (against Intel primarily) in long time, in fact, I don't think it's been higher. But still, not even half, not even a third of the markets.

It's the "add" (or in some cases the "ad"). As someone who has been around for awhile, change. Change is always change. But again, a year from now, it won't matter, everyone will have new shiny machines with Windows 11.

Obviously people can run unsupported and without security and driver updates for as long as they wish. You are correct.

Same ole song, "Heck no, we won't go!!" You don't have a choice, different song in a year.

Imagine a beowulf cluster of Cheyenne computers.

Even the last user of water blocks, JayZ has a video.

You may "hate monopolies", but companies usually do not want to be regulated as one. Nvidia will "provide the loan" to keep the competitor alive, if that's what it takes IMHO (but we'll see, I mean it could cost Nvidia billions if they are found to be a monopoly).

IMHO, Nvidia has to have something "real" with regards to competition. If not AMD, it will become Intel. Maybe MSI is truly betting on the latter (?)

Hee hee.... sort of reminds you of pre-Proton (Steamdeck) days of not having many (Windows) games in Linux. I'm sure everyone is "right on this", getting their games ready for Snapdragon X. (of course, it does depend on Microsoft's commitment on this... so, gaming could happen... maybe...)

True, but maybe "less true" in today's "small world". I know that if you're not afraid to deal with region issues, you often get certain content when you go "outside" your own country. Many years ago, I did that to get "Bringing Up Baby" (the old Cary Grant classic) on DVD. Of course, soon...

To me, it's hard to predict "what will last". I mean, I don't like disco, it was a short lived fad. I think rap is far worse, yet... here we are. Doesn't make sense to me. Almost random.

I don't think the idea is to "cease brain activity", those that are trying to protect "our ground" realize that you also have to ensure longer term use. However, I know of lots of companies that appreciate what you just said.

Me too. I'm not ready to expose my belly for free for everyone. Not going there. And IMHO, those that "give in" the "those with our best interests at heart", well, it may sound like it's a good thing... but maybe it isn't. Be careful not to blindly trust because it's "cool to do so." (but...

But, by that (somewhat flawed) argument, CDs/DVDs/Blurays must come into "itchy-ness" at some point. Regardless. I've got a frame grabber.... there is a "solution" to streaming madness and it's built-in "lack of reliability". I strictly have "the devices" for the purposes of putting the...