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Go watch snazzy labs take on this. It's awesome. iMessage was reverse engineered by a high school student. Apple...Kings of security! ha ha ha.

I will be trying out beeper mini on Christmas morning when we open our pixels. Reports to follow.

Got our two pixel 8s ordered. Should be here next week. We are excited to move from apple for a change.

I will get them this morning after we get straightened away for the day. I have to pull the case off the system.

It sees the HDDs no issue. I want to install an ssd I have as a 5th drive in either the PCI-E card, or the esata port in the back of the system to run the OS off and have the 4 HDD just for storage with no OS on them.

If those solid state coolers are soon able to be purchased by the public (frore ssd chip coolers), I would try a maxed out spec MBA 15 inch. No throttling then. Would be an interesting system.

Sorry, I am posing two completely different setups. 1. the drive on the PCI-E card is the small SSD that came in my dell notebook. I bought the card to install the ssd in the open PCI slot on the motherboard. 2. the Esata port on the back of the system is showing in the bios. So if I get a hard drive/ssd in an external case and plug in there, can I run the OS off that? There are 4 hotswap HDD in my server and that's what I want to use for storage only, no OS if at all possible. Sorry for the confusion.

Too bad his numbers are not correct. Windows as of today is sitting at 69.7 percent bumping back up from June low of 65%. I don't know where people pull their numbers from. Apple bumped up in that same timeframe when windows went down, but the inverse it true currently. Windows went down/MacOS went up, 6 months later, MacOS is down almost the exact same percentage windows went up. It's all give and take between MacOS and Windows. the others are non players. I am also guessing a bunch of people got suckered into Apple's marketing vortex of the supremely vague graphs showing how performant their Mjesus chips supposedly are, only to find out that's not entirely true and moved back to powerful systems. I know I was falling for the fanboys claims of supreme power from the studio and macbook pro. Only to find out my current systems are faster at doing what I do than the M1 Ultra systems. I am sure that's where the dip and spike between the two come from.

No, it doesn't. When I open up the loader for the software, it shows there but not in boot. Could I use a eSata drive pluged into the back of the unit to run the OS? I am trying to keep the 4 drives for storage only.

Just a regular 2280 512gb NVME ssd on a PCI-E expansion card. The server is the acer AC100

It is not windows, but TrueNAS that I am trying to install.

I tried everything in bios to get this card to be recognized as the main boot drive. Any ideas on how to make this work?

I need to get my office/workspace cleaned up and get some updated pictures of my desktop setup. I am upgrading my monitors soon to two dell 27 4k ultrasharp monitors soon. I will miss my touch, but I have plans for that as well.

That's clean. great job.

Update 3. Installed the OS onto the new ssd in the system. The system will not recognize the new drive in bios, and windows 7 ultimate does not see it either when I loaded in one of the HDDs with the OS on it. Any ideas?

Update 2. went down to my shop behind my house and took the cable from that to start the install of TrueNAS. I have the USB iso in rufus now creating the boot drive

Update time. Started this build. Ran into a couple of issues I am working on now. One, TrueNAS needs the same size drives to work correctly. Right now all I had was 2 1tb and 1 2tb. So, This delays the project. What's worse is that I don't have a video cable and the machine has no other input method for display. So I have to wait until my buddy gets off work. He has a bunch.

From what I see, The Asus studio book 16 was faster in every metric except on specialized benchmark. Every other one, The studio book was faster. If I was buying a MacBook now I would go M2 Max MacBook Pro.

Yeah, really!

I guess I am showing my age with this one, ha ha ha!

How so? my 2070 super has 8gb of ram for itself. How is having 8gb JUST for video and say having 16gb unified better? ram is ram. Apple crows about how their ram works like double the amount of ram on a windows/linux based PC (which it does not btw). I have 128gb of ram on my board, plus 8gb extra, and when doing certain things I can use both my 2070 super and UHD on my chip at once. You are falling for the Apple marketing spin.

I am wondering if Microsoft will work with this now (or some other company) and create a messaging platform for windows. I am close to jumping ship on MS, but we will see how much trouble I am going to have to get my account unlocked next month. And then the wife's. I think her secondary contact is her now lost rogers email as well. I will have to fix hers after I get mine back up and running.

I am looking at moving to mac, I am wondering what can I get for my XPS 8940. 10700 processor 128gb ddr4 ram 2tb ssd 1tg ssd 500gb ssd 2tb HDD 2070 super all Noctua cooling 2 24" dell monitor with desk mount arm and stock bases. One monitor is touch enabled dell keyboard and mouse Would like to sell as a complete system if at all possible. Shipping extra of course.

From what I have been reading they are equivalent to the current M3 (non pro) chips. For a first kick at the can in the pc space that is decent. I will take it.

So, I have been sitting around watching the ole tube lately. So I decided to search Apple M1 vs. intel 1165g7. I get the normal culprits like Luke Miani and Maxtech. I watch those and they are claiming 120 percent faster on real world testing. I thought to myself, WOW. those mjesus chips are insane. Then I started watching NON brand loyal channels and a very different outcome was coming from those people who didn't want clickbaity videos. Turns out the M1 and the 1165G7 are VERY close in both performance and battery life. Doing low power activities like web browsing and youtube etc, the M series will get 3 to 4 hours better battery life than the intel. once pushed the numbers change drastically. They are within 1 hr of each other once heavy loads are applied. Meaning the M series will get one hour or less better battery life than the intel chipset. Hardly something worth going apecrap over. Then comes the performance side of things. The Nonclickbaity channels do REAL real world test. (who knows what Maxtech has done to the intel machine or their tests), and once again, the 1165g7 trades blows with the M1 in real world tests. Sometimes the m series finishes first, sometimes the intel does. It's not the blow out that the other dance and crow about. It's the same results I am seeing with my one intel based notebook. I never see slow downs etc. Yeah it takes a bit to render and export 4k video on it, but it also takes just as long for the M1 to do it. The difference is 3 mins or less. NOT the 20 min faster that Luke and Max claim constantly. Like I said, they probably force the intel into low power mode somehow or have the benchmarking system neutered for the intel. I went and used the M2 macbook air for a good hour a few weeks back at work doing things with it and never thought once, this is extremely faster than my current system. I do like the display better than mine but hey....not a huge deal as my display still is fine, its the apple is a little better. All in all, I am going to stay with my current systems and move to a pixel 8 Pro instead of buying new macs.