Hi,
First post, please have pity on me :-). Hardware side was not my strongest suit. What I have learned
from this group (and a similar one that use to be elsewhere, but was closed down) has been lot to digest.
Question on ECC vs. non-ECC:
1) Am I losing a lot of memory speed going ECC vs. non-ECC?
2) Should I really worry about using ECC? My use will primarily programming, office stuff and maybe some gaming;
no scientific work. Right now, I have a m6700 (like the layout better than what I see on 7770), I do not really know
of a way to know if I had a memory bit error or not? A number of crashes in recent times, but this could be age.
3) How to judge how much speed improvement I get with the faster memory? Is that more needed with scientific
than the programming and gaming?
I'm asking about the ECC vs. non-ECC because I see that I lot of people want to order the 7770 ask soon as possible,
so I assume they are not worried about ECC since I understand that to come out later. Any idea how long before it
will come out?
Separate question on wifi:
On the m6700 there is a switch to turn on and off wifi (I believe it is more software than hardware on/off). How do
you do that on the newer machines, such as 7770? Is there an icon on the desktop where you can do it quickly?
If I had they ethernet plugged in (1Gb) or the type-c to ethernet (>1Gb), will it automatically default to the faster
of those that is plugged in?
Thanks for any help,
Douglas
