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The geometry is not good for that. Oh well. It will rarely be a problem that there are such long sustained writes.

Have you done that successfully? I read somewhere that the post is supposed to be grounded, but maybe it doesn't matter in practice. There appeared to be only the one post at 42mm in the video though the image angle may be misleading.

It's unclear to me if the 8840U has 2.5" SATA or not. The specs don't show it, but the U-Tubers do. If I cannot use SATA then the 2nd M.2 slot is 2242. Is there some way to make a 2230 fit in a 2242 space without just dangling? I've seen 2242 or 2230 to 2280 adapters but not between the two...

I guess he likes APPLE, but I doubt they are so benevolent not to use your data. MS is just more in your face about it and under more scrutiny. Have the Surfaces ever performed worth a damn? The old ones used to overheat and practically burn the loins and then some of them would just die...

I usually clean my clipboard after use. It's a stupid security risk of Windows.

11 looks like a nightmare about to get worse. How can I buy legitimate Windows 10 now?

The progression of computers surely has not been linear since 1998. The 15K hard drives hugely improved performance. The belated 64-bit Windows was a big deal for removing the RAM and page file bottlenecks. Then of course there was single socket SMP, and finally SSDs. Obviously other users...

Typically one can progress in career from individual contributor to manger to director to VP to C level with various increments in between. Often that means moving from one company to another or changing roles within a company and of course the proportion that reach highest levels is...

Wow. Somehow I thought you just stopped driving in the last decade or so. I suggest taking a few weeks and driving 6000 miles around the country to gain a better perspective. Most people not having money start with cheaper or older cars in high school and move up to better cars as their career...

Yes, they are always asking for me to trade in my car towards a crappier vehicle. :LOL: Were you leasing, driving somebody else's car, or just renting as needed?

The poor people will not buy new cars and there will not be so many used electric vehicles because the batteries don't last. You can see plenty of >10 year old cars in the neighborhoods yet I doubt there will be as many electrics. I suppose we will see in the 2030s how well the used electric...

That was just an example. I'm sure that Ford/Lincoln or Toyota/Lexus, etc. make something you would like better. But most modern cars will spy on you whether gas or electric. I drove an Escalade rental for about 2000-2500 miles (probably 2014 or 2015). It was fine, but larger than I needed...

Well, computer tech work seems to be your career. :) I did not own a computer until I was much older than you are now. In the 80s and 90s computers were something that most people had to learn for work or for avocation. I had to learn about computer hardware from magazines and then online in...

It's a cheap and tiny car even if they build it to a decent safety standard for 50% more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_Seagull I'd be more interested in a LYRIQ for example.

At your age then I'm sure it was all new, but I just wish I had spent those years more fruitfully than messing with computers, scanners, printers, etc. Now the spectre of Win 11 may get me off the computers.

Do you even drive much anymore? I cannot comment on the dystonian futures of a large city like NYC, but most people live in less overpopulated areas and in a different world. Dave lives in the highly electrifed, affluent lands, and drives like a maniac. I live in the burbs, but am looking to...

Some people were running 300As over 500Mhz. I had a Pentium II 400, which was the top CPU when 98 came out. Later when I used a separate motherboard it ran at 468 without anything special. I was a gluon for punishment back then on BX, using 4 different Slot 1 CPUs up to 850Mhz (@952)...

I don't want to deal with Linux yet, as it will be a big black hole of scary time suck to me. I need to boot from (and restore) one LINUX SSD and also boot to a regular OS SSD (initially Win 10, then later 11) via the BIOS. All I would use the former for is the internet and some basic file...

That is way too much complication of a future state. I can only decide what to drive for myself in the 2020s-2030s if my organs consitune. The last 10 years or so I have not put much resources into automobiles. There are far more important things for me to spend money on than transportation...

It looks like that was replaced with the 8840U. The upcoming Strix Point is Windows 11 only, so that is out for the NUC types. If I have to go Win 11 for desktop, it would be mostly offline and I'd just want to use the "NUC" for daily online actions. Would the 8840U be able to run an oddball...

Exactly. I'm probably one of the few that choses the light weight/small size over anything else. For many years I used Fujitsu executive thin/light laptops until they stopped distributing in North America. The last one had an 8th generation CPU (U series 15W) and weighed 799g-920g (1.76-2.03...

I have no interest in purely EVs, so I don't follow all that stuff. I might consider a plug-in hybrid if I had clear access to power. I can understand couples having one EV or wealthy individuals buying EVs just to have them, but unfortunately they are not practical for my single person...

Adoption of electric is not so much about one company or person, but all the other factors. There are plenty of electric, hybrid, and plug-in hybrid cars. Pick another one that you like better. For example, some people did not like Herny Ford, so they bought Dodge Bros or Chevrolet vehicles.

We were all on Win XP by the time of Barton and some already were for Thoroughbreds. There are enough hardware limitations on RAM and there is always the desire for more, but limiting the RAM with an outdated OS obfuscates the issue.

I'd rather have an iNtel CPU with a dozen really fast P cores and forget the E cores. I know we will probably get a desktop version of AMDs big.little next, that is "c" to drop the 3rd level cache. It's almost a miracle that they are allowing Windows 10 on the 9000 series, but everything going...

Looking at my notes from 1999, I had a BX6 R2 with 768MB of some humongous 256MB RAM (looked liked it was from a server). The board was running at 117. I guess that was for the CPU to exceed MHz? Apparently I had a BH6 before that. Eventually I found a 4th RAM of the same kind and was very...

768MB really helped a lot. In 1999 I was working with 20MP scans and the swap file and temp files were thrashing the drives. The 10K SCSI drive helped significantly. Win 11 doesn't seem so bad compared to back then,but 7 was the last MS OS I liked.

I had several BX; not sure which ones. Some people could not get more than 512MB on 9x at all, so I was not complaining too much. I'm really bummed about the X870E. It's not clear if there is any ways to get back the PCIe lanes from the Thunderbowls thievery.

Yes, hence the 48GB RAM modules now. That was not an option in Q1 2023 for my first x670E. 2x32GB at 6000MHz or 4x32GB at 4800-5200 was typical of that time.

For personal use I once had the same main system for 5 years, but that was because the newer systems had some critical limitations. Normally I think 3 years is about right for a major upgarde.

But why not use Win2K or XP back then? My BX board would boot with three but not four 256MB in 9x, so I got Win 2K. AMD has sucky DDR5 RAM controllers so you can basically only use 2 slots with any speed. If you are running a business server like Merc then each core doesn't have to be very...

My main system has swapfile.sys (16MB) and pagefile.sys (4GB). I have no idea if those are normal or not. I recall that RAM was very expensive in the Windows 85 and even 98 era. I think it was about a dollar per MB in 1999.

A few years ago I was testing 32GB vs 64GB. Windows appeared to hog all the RAM it could get, but I did not find any performance difference in capacity. There was about a 10% decrease in performance between 6000 and 4800 RAM speed settings. I don't find any AMD EXPO RAMs at 6400 in 2x32GB...

Does the ratio of RAM to the cores matters or not? With 96GB and 12 cores you have 8GB per core. If you have 64GB and 16 cores the ratio is only half (4GB/core). Which is better, 12 Cores and 96GB or 16 Cores and 64GB?

I received a new "company" laptop in 2023 but it was about a year old and had an 11th generator CPU. It's like I have a 2021 laptop really. :( I always seem to get old stuff, but it's really just luck. The last two were recycled laptops. The problem is that there is so much software running...

It's like the first thing I do when a new device is thrust upon me for work.

Nobody looks at the System to see what hardware they are getting?

OMG, Surfaced 3 is only on an Atomic CPU? Warko says it is x7-Z8700, about half of the Passmark of the 2008 Core 2 QUAD 9650. :rolleyes: If it is brand new, it must have been in the attic 9 years. :LOL:

Why 24, because the RAM is asymmetrical at 96GB? I did not even know they had 2x48GB EXPOs at 6400GHz.

So Office does not run well on the ChromeBooks?

If you are using a 2010 P/S, then obviously IQ is not a priority. Back in summer 2003, a 2GB CF card was $600. I was using an 11MP FF camera that produced ~10MB RAW files. So each image required $3 worth of a memory card. I had 10GB of cards in total, a laptop with an 80GB HDD, and two...

Or building power plants to run all that stuff.

The closest sensor to the 100D that I find from Claff is the 7D, though the 60D was similar also. That was in the days where Canon A/D lost the brightest two stops at low ISO and was criticized for not having the DR until about ISO 400. I looked at some of my old 7D files from Africa and CR2...

Your contract allows them to do that or they are stealing your images?

Whatever happened to Windows 12? Is it replacing Windows 11 when Windows 10 is destroyed? Will there be a direct upgrade from 10 to 12?

Standards. :D

I'm reluctant to advise people to buy equipment if they don't have a plan. I'm sure that Greg could do better with what he has first. And the stuff you photograph or video in the dim, indoor places is not indicative of wildlife and Canon.

I would never suggest that a Canon cropper of any era is the best choice. :LOL: The EF-S/RF-S sensors are inferior to many others in the ~APS-C format. I've had almost every Canon one from 8MP to 10MP to 12MP to 15MP to 18MP, 20MP, 32 MP, several of each sometimes. Canon is stupidly with the...

That was a long time ago. Most everyone knows how to use office and TEAMS now. I don't expect C folks to be good at ERP and specialty systems unless that was their area. Does anyone not in a relevant technical role really enjoy SAP, Oracle, JDE, Ariba, etc.? How does that Qualcon do in noise...

Download IrfanView freeware. It will do quite a bit including resizing and converting various formats. https://www.irfanview.com/