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  1. Mr. Fox
    Mine is not being used. I will put an ad in the Marketplace if either of you want it. I am trying to break my bad habit of hoarding PC components that I am not using, LOL. Check the motherboard in the Amazon photos. It has IDE, parallel and IEEE 1394 (FireWire) ports. There are probably some folks in our community that are not even sure what those things are. 🙂
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    That seems to be par for the course now, doesn't it? A very high percentage of the tech advice that I see being given is flawed, based on lack of knowledge, personal bias and mostly worthless. The people receiving it generally are unable to identify bad advice because they just don't know anything. They embrace it on the basis that person giving it is trustworthy and knows more than they do. While there could be a degree of truth to that assumption, the giver and the receiver don't know what they don't know. It is a classic example of the blind leading the blind. And, we all know that old expression about the road to hell being paved with good intentions.
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    NVIDIA hasn't been cooperating with production of MXM for a long time. They figured out with the Pascal generation that they could make a lot more money off of laptop manufacturers selling disposable turdbooks than they could with them selling upgradable and repairable systems.
  4. Mr. Fox
    Clevo started circling the drain when the P870 was discontinued. They've always had issues with quality control and lousy firmware that ruined the performance of their systems, but with some tinkering, a bit of modding, and a @Prema BIOS mod you ended up with something amazing. The tinkering and modding was part of the fun. But, the chintzy crap they're offering now is totally inexcusable. There's not enough modding in the world that is going to make up for the shortcomings. The BGA GPU is an absolutely unpardonable sin.
  5. Mr. Fox
    A lot of people used to say that you should never put a desktop CPU in a laptop. I've always disagreed at that, and I still do. There's no reason you can't or shouldn't. That's just stupid. What you shouldn't do is buy a laptop that isn't designed correctly. Oops. None of them are designed correctly anymore. None of them have the thermal management or engineering that they deserve. It doesn't matter whether they have a 25 watt CPU or a 250 watt CPU, they're all made like crap now. It's unfortunate because there's no excuse for it. Oh wait, it needs to be thin and light... Yeah, that's the ticket.
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    I am not sure of a reason I should care. There could be some reason that I should care about it that I am not aware of. Maybe just as a act of defiance, since Intel doesn't want me to have it. Other than that, probably not.
  7. Mr. Fox
    There is not even one single new laptop for sale now that I would consider spending money on. Not one. They're all just varying degrees of worthless, castrated, compromised garbage.
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    Only time will tell if AMD breaks from tradition and doesn't suck in the next generation, but I certainly wouldn't hold my breath on that happening. All of their stuff looked great in theory last generation with Ryzen 9, but it turned out to be just another goofed-up cluster cloaked behind fancy-looking Cinebench scores. I take all of the talking head chatter and theoretical greatness about what's coming next with a grain of salt. It will be interesting to see what remains broken and what new things they can find to mess up.
  10. Mr. Fox
    They probably enjoy giving bipolar whiners things to mitch and boan about. Some complained about AVX512 existing and now they can complain about it going away. https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/20/08/22/0550242/intel-defends-avx-512-against-critics-who-hope-it-dies-a-painful-death And, since the industry seems obsessed with trashy low-power turd technology, eliminating that can enhance the wuss factor of the new energy-efficient garbage the sheeple crave.
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  12. Mr. Fox
    I am taking my wife to see it for her birthday today. I do not care for Tom Cruise as a person, but it seems that I enjoy almost every movie he is in and I like the characters that he plays.
  13. Mr. Fox
    I guess I am the keyboard-jockey equivalent of a blabber-mouth. 😉
  14. Mr. Fox
    The idea behind the project is great, but the specs are lackluster. The headphone jack, removable storage media and removable battery are certainly hardware features that are desirable. The rest is not much better than pre-paid burner phone rubbish. https://myteracube.com/pages/teracube-2e#tech-spec-secs
  15. Mr. Fox
    Thanks for the validation. As I was thinking about offering it up here in the marketplace for $750, that would be sweet deal.
  16. Mr. Fox
    I figured that Banshee was overdue to stretch her legs a bit before putting her nose back to the grindstone again. This wicked girl is my daily workhorse. She spends most of her time crushing Excel and PowerBI. Yes, she does that 8-10 hours per day running the clock speeds used here, LOL. Because she can.
  17. Mr. Fox
    My preferred aesthetic is only possible with older versions of Windows. Minimalist, clean... LTSC 2019 (v1809) with AeroGlass and StartisBack. Nothing else. It really sucks that Windows version upgrades are actually downgrades.
  18. Mr. Fox
    I am contemplating another upgrade. Does $750 seem in line for the setup with these components? EVGA Z490 Dark (546 days remaining on warranty) 10900K (excellent bin quality) - delidded and running bare die Supercool Computer Bare Die Block I have the stock IHS for the CPU and will include it. The CPUs memory controller is also very stout. Has no issue overclocking the RAM to 4500 CL16-18-18-36
  19. Mr. Fox
    I use HWINFO64. It is my go-to systen monitoring tool. I use AIDA64 for the Sensor Panel and benchmark tools it offers. It also has support for LCD panels like those that appeared on Logitech keyboards.
  20. Mr. Fox
    I don't have any experience with any of them, but I have some awareness of the Pine phone. Conceptually, the idea of having a phone that runs on Linux rather than Android or iOS is interesting to me and compelling on the basis that there is no underlying agenda.
  21. Mr. Fox
    That is an AIDA64 Sensor Panel. Yes, I like having a tall start menu so I have less reason to scroll. I like being able to see more things at one time without having to scroll. I set my start menu length to be between 2/3 and 3/4 of the display height.
  22. Mr. Fox
    Thanks for the good work here, Brother @Azther. Nice job. Here is what my LTSC 2021 GUI looks like.
  23. Mr. Fox
    AMD is just an open invitation to participate in a comedy of errors, providing little more than an endless cycle of nonsense IMHO. I have extremely low confidence in anything that comes from them. Literally everything I have ever owned that was made by AMD had one or more things wrong with it. Nothing is perfect, but in stark contrast to my experience with AMD, I cannot remember owning anything with severe engineering defects or blatant flaws that was made by Intel or NVIDIA. I don't care about brand and I am not a fanboy for anyone. I just have a low tolerance for nonsense.
  24. Mr. Fox
    They're a hopeless cause. Don't burn any calories on 'em.
  25. Mr. Fox
    I think the issue is, they don't want us to have that anymore. And/or, they don't want to support it because it requires effort, engineering and diligence, and it's just way lots easier for them to build and sell feces to stupid people than it is to build awesome products.
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