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Now put that into a laptop with some cooling and you will have something.

Yep. copying apple for the sake of copying apple is wrong. No matter who does it.

Are there any better options? Basically, I want to put a dual ssd drive setup in bay one. To feed my projects and run the OS, then use the other 3 bays are the raid array for project storage using large HDDs.

I love that hardware for sure. That thing is NICE.

I have since looked at 3 monitors. I was going to move to a ultrawide, but 3 displays will work better. It's the easier cheaper route for me. Get the 3rd dell ultrasharp, put my touchscreen in the middle and flank it with the other 2 24's. That will give me all the real estate I need and the comfort of having my main screen directly in front of me instead of off to the side a little like my current dual monitor setup. Cheap and easy is fine by me.

For taskbar and start menu tweaks I use translucentTB and power start menu. Translucent TB for removing all shading of the taskbar and power start menu to remove the silly recommended area and give it much better translucence as well. It all looks clean and modern.

I never got the "worse start menu experience". I find it much better and cleaner. The only issue is the "recommended" area of the start menu you can't get rid of in settings. A simple download from the MS store fixes that.

If I were spending any kind of money on an office chair for my desk and workstation it would be a Herman Miller. No flashy colors etc, just comfort for long periods of sitting.

Again, That's not what's happening. It's for sellers. In all honesty, I would not want to buy a new PC with a 5 year old chip in it anyways. The rules of what systems can use windows 11 has not changed. So there is NOTHING disgusting or heinous about it. Its saying PC makers you can sell NEW systems with old chips and get support.

If you read the entire article, this was meant for OEM. Microsoft is no longer providing support for OEMs that are selling these processors. Our pc's will work just fine and get updates. Super clickbait article.

I was seeing this last night! ha ha. Got my music room back finally! went down, lit my smoke eater candle, lit myself and enjoyed the evening. Just have to get the rest of the boxes and crap out of there now so I can bring in the sofa and some tables! Ha ha. Back to the phones. I am continually impressed with Motorola's offerings. The stylus and 5g currently available from them on their site give amazing value and great feeling hardware. They don't feel cheap like the a15/16 from Samsung.

Ahhh gotcha!

This is what it looks like on my end @Bullit and @Reciever.

I wonder if it's a code error in dark mode. I will see what @Reciever says!

The only time I get these system interrupts is when I am watching YouTube. Any ideas people?

Hey @Bullit. Your posts are coming up all messed up on my screen. Half of it is whilte highlighted words etc. It's only your posts that's doing it. Do you have a certain setting on by mistake?

Same reason I would not go linux. My software does not work on it. Too bad. I am digging linux mint. How's the ad blocking on MacOS?

I am going back and forth again. I love the 15 inch macbook air in midnight. I think it's the best looking laptop in the market now. I have to sit with my ipad and just start using it as my device for awhile. I am thinking a maxed 15 inch will work fine for my creative work while mobile, and get a maxed out mac mini for desktop use. I am getting tired of microsoft effing with my OS on me.

TrueNAS distro. Should work no problem, but you never know with older stuff. ha ha.

I used the drivers from intel instead of dells. Works much better, there is still something causing system interrupts however, not ram or drive. I am running out of ideas. But the system is MUCH better after doing all the things I did.

So, my system was acting wonky with long stutters, system slow downs etc. I started doing some reading about it, and monitoring the task manager. I noticed system interrupts were using 1/2 my cpu when the slowdowns would happen. So, I went and removed all Dell drivers and downloaded intel drivers from their site instead. It improved but was not perfect. So I started watching the task manager more while using my system. I noticed Dell's software package was always at the top of the usage list. So I removed all of that nonsense too. Now, my system is much snappier and I have zero slow downs anymore. Something to look at if your system is lagging and you are all "stock".

quick question, Do all the drives have to be the same? or can I use 3 HDD and a different drive as a fourth through a dual drive mount in bay one? I am moving from MS 365 after this year and going local for everything, so I need ALOT of space.

How do you run steam games on Linux? or can you at all?

Worked like a charm. Thanks again.

Forgot this was here. Just finished doing another upgrade to the 5368. Since Colin got a new MSI gaming system, the wife inherited the 5368, so I scavenged her 1tb ssd, ax201 wireless card and installed a new battery to replace the dead one that was starting to swell. She is now able to work on her laptop without issue. Here little Inspiron 3169 was REALLY slow on win 11 with just 4 gb of ram.