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  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Video Cards.
    It looks like nVidia 4000-series GPUs are getting big markdowns. 20% off puts their price almost at the point of sanity. Apparently...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Ryzen.
    Weirdly, the places I'm most likely to run in to Macs are law offices and small software developer shops and one-offs for VIPs who use...
  • ddrueding
    WizTree was all it took to get my kid to understand the concept. That functionality should be standard in all the things.
  • ddrueding
    ddrueding replied to the thread Ryzen.
    I suspect that the draw is shops that started with Apple when they were small, but still feel locked-in even after growth into a...
  • Mercutio
    My almost 23 year old domestic partner will say with absolutely no sense of irony, that she grew up poor and therefore only had Android...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Ryzen.
    The RAM on their SoCs is just DDR5. The architecture is obviously different, but I think the only difference is the width of the bus...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Ryzen.
    Apple Silicon Macs always seem like lightweights in the RAM department. I know it's part of the SoC but even with the greater memory...
  • Chewy509
    Oh, so much this. A lot of time it's assumed knowledge, since kids have grown up with tech. But the tech they've grown up is Android and...
  • Mercutio
    Apple very specifically doesn't want send users to deal with the concept of files, let alone worry their pretty little heads about...
  • ddrueding
    It does seem like the increased accessibility of basic technology has led to some regression on computer knowledge in general. The...
  • sedrosken
    sedrosken replied to the thread Something Random.
    I don't actually think my model is equipped with an 802.11b card -- that's fine by me, I've got an 802.11g PC card sitting on my desk...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Ryzen.
    New Mac Pro with an M2 Ultra dropped today. It's a weird system. $7000 base price, maximum of 192GB RAM. Has PCI-e 4.0 for, oh...
  • Mercutio
    This morning, an acquaintance asked me to look at his iphone 14 Pro Max. 1TB model. It was full, with 880GB of 20 - 25 second long video...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.
    That sounds like a massive pain in the ass, but it should be do-able. I do know that the Thinkpads of that era, the ~T20 at least, did...
  • Mercutio
    Users can and probably should turn off LAN access by UEFI or disable the @App Center Download. The mitigation is fairly straightforward...
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