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Apple could be great in the PC space if they allowed upgradability via user, and more than 5 years of OS updates. Luke Miani and others have proven time and again, the older macs and macbooks can run current OS versions just fine, but Apple has a 5 year planned obsolescence program. After 5 years, your system will start to degrade at the OS level and lose services and options.

Thanks. Happy to be back here!

I have been working part time at Bell now for almost a year and there have been many many people come in with dead or severely damaged devices with alot of important data on them. We (at the store) do not have any means to retrieve this data. Is there some software or hardware that can be used to get this information off their phones and onto a USB drive so they have it in their possession? Someone locally has a cellebrite unit for sale. I have been trying to get information on this as it may be the thing I am looking for to help with data recovery. Does anyone know if this unit will do what I am looking for?

Best OS ever for a mobile device was windows mobile. The best phone I ever owned was my 1020. I miss it dearly, and I wish it could still be a viable option for me today.

I am on Bell Canada Fibe 1gb upload and download speeds. It's a great service. I was on rogers ignite and it was crap. I am only using bell's wireless system on our property with great success now. 4 extender pods give us reliable fast internet around our home and garages. Boring setup but it works.

I am all wireless besides the connection to my workstation, for right now. I have an old acer mini server that I am going to put 4 8tb drives in some sort of raid array to hold my work / personal documents on. That will also be plugged into my router. I am on bell's fibe network here and love the speed I get on the net both wired and wirelessly. I have 4 extender pods throughout my property now. I have one upstairs to feed my tv's and my wife's office (she works from home full time), I have one out in my son's "apartment" for when he comes to visit, I have one downstairs to feed our tv, music room and gym, and I have the forth out in my garage to provide internet out there and to feed the wired connection to my workshop 700 ft away from my house. We ran gel filled CAT cable down to the shop to provide wireless internet down there. I have had fully wired systems here but I just find them redundant now where everything is wireless and speeds are up to snuff with me. Maybe I will revisit wired connections soon as I have it ran most everywhere in the house.

I think it will grow over time as more people from the old place come to find this one like I did. It's great to be back to a normal place where people are not complete lunatics and have the same things in common. I have been using another forum for my pc/notebook info and it's been brutal. You ask for basic information about setting something up and they go into a rant about you need this this this this and this to do this one simple thing. I have never had that problem here. Straight shooters, and to the point. No BS! keep it up!

My wife and I are both on iPhone 13s. Her's is a 128gb model and mines a 256gb model. It will be our last apple products. I am getting bored with them, and their lack of anything customizable. I am moving to cheap android devices which still have memory card slots, can customize the look of your device with launchers etc, and you can have extra functionality with windows as well. After Christmas I am getting us 2 Moto G stylus 5g phones. That phone has pretty much everything we need and nothing we dont. Install Gcam for the camera app and the cameras come alive. they are ok stock, but using Gcam, The hardware is utilized much better.

I am almost sure that you can use the Dell as a mobile hotspot for your notebook. Edit: I just went in to settings and yes, there is a setting right in windows 11 for mobile hotspot, you should be good to go. Welcome to the "darkside" too. iPads are toys. If you want to get work done etc, you need a portable computer with windows.

It's time to break out the old iron and see what I can make out of it. It needs some work, but it will be worth it to keep this beastly classic running for another number of years. I will be putting in a new keyboard, the current one is shot. Adding 8gb of ram instead of 4, upgrading from the t7300 processor to the t9300 processor. I will also be putting in a 256gb Kingston ssd and removing the old OCZ 120gb drive and keeping the 750gb storage drive. I have already upgraded the Bluetooth card and it works as intended as well. After it's done, I am going to try Zorin OS on it to see what I can do with it!

Hey everybody, Just giving a run down on my XPS workstation for doing creative work. it's a Dell XPS 8940 with the 10700 i7. It originally came with 16 gb of ram, 512gb ssd for program/os drive and a 2 tb HDD for storage. It has a RTX 2070 super graphics card in (one of the main reasons I bought instead of built), and it's a nice looking compact system. It didn't take long for me to start upgrading to the system I needed compared to the system I bought. I quickly swapped out the cooler and fans for Noctua units for slient working. I repasted the CPU with noctua paste as well. I also added the VRM cooler heatsink that never came on my system as well. The machine runs much cooler now with all of the brown goodies inside. I re-routed some cable work as well. After, I started swapping other parts. First up was the storage. I swapped the 512gb drive with a 4tb Hynix SSD and swapped out the 2tb with an 8tb HDD for finished project storage. Next up was the ram. The 16gb was pulled in favor of 128gb of patriot ram. This makes the system much quicker doing photo, video and graphic work that I do now. I also added a firewire port in the rear for my old MiniDV camera as well. Overall, this system was bought, upgraded and used with budget in mind. I am currently swapping my office around and upgrading the space to make it more up to date for when I start doing some youtube work for different things. I want the space to look great and feel like a place I want to work it.

Hey everyone. 2 years ago, my husky stepped on my previous dell 2 in 1 5687 (i think) and broke the screen. I upgraded to the inspiron 14 5406 2 in 1 with the 1165G7 processor and irisXE graphics. It came with 12 gb of ram, and a 512gb SSD. Since moving on and getting some field work for photography and videography, I have upgraded my system to a 4tb Hynix SSD and 64gb of patriot ram. The screen, overall build quality and feel of this system is great. I repasted the cpu and gpu and that made a big difference in the cooling of the machine as well when encoding video. I am currently completing a setup where I have the same basic system as my desktop workstation in a portable package. I have a 2 SSD enclosure for scratch and project drives for resolve, a 2tb storage drive for finished projects, a second 14-inch portable monitor with touch for dual display work and more. Overall, this system has everything I need to get work done while mobile.

Hey everyone, I am back! Glad this place is reviving. I have been venturing around a couple of others and it's just not the same. Thankfully, this place should take hold with the regulars again!