Recent content by jtr1962

I don't get that, either. A driver's license, or non-driver's ID, issued by the state with your picture should be sufficient to serve as ID on a video call.

Seems like only a $20 to $30 difference between 500GB and 1 TB. I'd just go with 1TB. It's possible he may do stuff which needs more space later.

I'm guess that's low-end commodity stuff which people on a budget buy. I definitely did see SSDs going for $35/TB last year. I also recall 8TB HDDs going for $100, give or take. If fact, here we go...

I saw prices of commodity SSDs drop to as low as $35/TB last year. Now it seems $45 to $50 is about the best deal you can get. Longer term of course, the trend is still down, as it's been with DRAM.

This is a textbook case of why you should back up your data in multiple places, like thumb drives, external hard drives, the cloud, etc. As for passwords. I've long ago made spreadsheets of passwords I use for various sites. There's no way I'm going to remember many or most of them. Besides, a...

For me personally, it seems like there's 5 years between noticeable differences, but at least a decade between differences which are large enough to merit a hardware upgrade. My last desktop hardware upgrade was to the A10-7870K about 5 years ago. Comparing this to the i7-13700H laptop I bought...

Do Macs still need special hard drives, or can they at least finally take regular commodity HDDs? I remember that being another quirk with them years ago where the pinout on the cable was different, no doubt so you could only buy hard drives from them at grossly inflated prices.

That pretty much would negate any need for heating my house in the winter. And 20 petaflops? Holy cow! I was impressed with just the few hundred gigaflops today's CPUs can manage.

There's one about half a mile from me. You're basically getting the graphics card thrown in for free once you add up the regular prices of all the other stuff. Looking at some data, the A770 can do roughly 20 Tflops single precision. That's about 10 times as much as the integrated GPU on my...

I actually did find a setting in MyAsus called battery care mode. I enabled it. It limits battery charge to 80%. I guess that's the same setting as on my sister's machine.

Yes, exactly. Intel's integrated GPUs sucked back then. I knew AMD's CPUs didn't quite match Intel, but for my uses they were "good enough". Now their Zen cores give Intel a run for their money. Definitely. It's worlds ahead of my A10-7870K for sure. I could do it that way. I have a Samsung T5...

It's Windows 11 Home, and the OS was installed on February 21, 2024. BestBuy does a fresh install on all their open box items. It's essentially like getting a new computer. The drive appears to be this one: https://www.newegg.com/micron-512gb-2400/p/0D9-0022-000N3 Read speeds up to 4500 MB/s...

Yeah, I don't use AV programs beyond Windows Defender and Malwarebytes. They all drastically slow the system down, especially when doing file operations. Still using 7 on my desktop. No compelling reason for me to upgrade. It works, plus I'm way too entrenched to start over. Only thing I...

I didn't have any vested interest in Windows 11 until now. I just bought a new laptop. Open box excellent condition (which looks brand new to me) for $662.99. However, I just got a new credit card which gives a $200 cash back bonus plus 1% on purchases if you spend over $500 in the first 3...

Thank you.