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I had to install Acrobat Reader to fill out a FinCen form (Treasury Compliance) and they got me. It install McAfee by default. You have to go in and find options and uncheck it. So I uninstalled it once I found it.

I hate programs and operating systems that do this. I assume they get some small amount of revenue for doing this.
 
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Matt2012 said:
What makes this ram so special for that price? I'm watching a few 128GB (x2 64GB kits) here in the UK and pricing is around £1400 ($1900 USD)?
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Maybe that it's ECC? Usually ECC is for servers. ECC has been historically cheaper back in DDR3 days but it might cost more today due to demand.
 
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What makes this ram so special for that price? I'm watching a few 128GB (x2 64GB kits) here in the UK and pricing is around £1400 ($1900 USD)?
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Nothing really. RAM kits with 4 sticks are going to not really be sought after by "normal" people as the memory timings/speeds aren't great and stable OC isn't really a thing with 4 sticks.
 
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Nothing really. RAM kits with 4 sticks are going to not really be sought after by "normal" people as the memory timings/speeds aren't great and stable OC isn't really a thing with 4 sticks.
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Yeah, I assumed x2 sticks are better than x4 for most normal users.
 
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Yeah, I assumed x2 sticks are better than x4 for most normal users.
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Most people with four slots have two already filled and are going to want another two slots for more headroom rather than replacing two and then adding two. The people buying four need or want to maximize RAM. My current desktop has 128 GB of RAM. I bought 64 GB on the original build and then added 64 GB later on because I was playing around with multiple virtual machines (macOS, Windows and Linux) at the time. The 64 GB was cheap and I thought, why not?
 
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Nova Lake sounds quite good. Right now the competition is M5 Max Studio vs Nova Lake build in 2027. If Nova Lake, I'd go with the i7 that's 35 watts. The M5 Studio should arrive this year though. One major downside of the Studio is Rosetta 2 going away in 2027. One of the main programs I use will lose support on macOS. I'm not convinced that a replacement program will be ready in 2027 based on the progress on the port for the past two years and the rate of bugs being reported.

Windows is just much better support in the trading world.

Arrow Lake Refresh would be an option in the near-term but Nova Lake has so much support for faster stuff. Thunderbolt 5 support, support for Gen 4 and Gen 5 NVMe SSD (up to eight) and they are hinting that the socket would be used for future chips. Arrow Lake Refresh is a dead-end chip. But it is Arrow Lake with the bugs fixed and it's available now.

 
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Most people with four slots have two already filled and are going to want another two slots for more headroom rather than replacing two and then adding two. The people buying four need or want to maximize RAM. My current desktop has 128 GB of RAM. I bought 64 GB on the original build and then added 64 GB later on because I was playing around with multiple virtual machines (macOS, Windows and Linux) at the time. The 64 GB was cheap and I thought, why not?
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I thought you had to have all sticks matching? IE; bought as one kit?
 
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I thought you had to have all sticks matching? IE; bought as one kit?
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They are the same product but different batches.

I've mixed and matched in my iMacs too. Say you get an 8 GB iMac (2x4) and want to upgrade so you buy 2x8 for 24 GB of RAM. You should ideally use the same brand and settings but it can work fine if you don't. Or it may not work at all. I have put in A-Tech RAM in my iMacs before - it's the cheapest stuff out there; instead of OWC which people buy because it's generally bulletproof.
 
When I got my Yoga, it would display the battery time remaining which showed me that I usually had 13+ hours of battery life. Then at some point, the battery life estimate went away. I tried all sorts of things to get it back including setting Registry entries but was unsuccessful.

Then I learned that Microsoft removed it from Windows 11.

Today I installed a Windows Update and, it came back! It's a small thing but it helps me when I'm using it for a long time when I'm mobile.

I ran a test playing a full-screen video with two 10 tabs, two of them open to YouTube videos. And it reported back 16.5 hours of battery life. The spec is 26 hours but the actual is never spec as they turn everything off. At this point I do not think that Panther Lake is going to provide better battery life than Lunar Lake - it seems the idea is to provide better performance efficiently. So I'll stick with Lunar Lake until I can see evidence that they improved battery life over Lunar Lake.

So one small win for Windows (that they broke) that makes me happy.

Update appeared to be pretty big given how many times it rebooted the system.
 
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I looked at mine, 6hr and 59min at 92 percent. Not bad for a 6 year old processor running at 70 percent birghtness. That works for me.

As for battery life, 8 to 10 hrs is all that is really needed. You are never far away from a power plug at this point. and panther lake will have a monumental jump in graphics performance over lunar, if that's important to you.

I have been driving myself looney trying to figure out what to buy and going inside and out at what platform to use. My logical amazing hot wifey, see avatar<-----------, said, since everything is gone wacko, just wait and ride out the insanity. I do have my powerful desktop system if I need to do really heavy lifting. Try and see if you can edit our videos on location when we go with your current laptop. If you can, just calm down and wait.

I am going to take her advice. Now, if this laptop dies, then I have no choice, but while it still works I am going to stay put with what I have.
 
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I saw this on FB and instantly thought of this thread, lol
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maflynn said:
I saw this on FB and instantly thought of this thread, lol
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I clean out Windows PCs with a leaf blower.

I see a lot of Mac users freaking out over a corner dent or a dent on the visible surfaces. But for each person that sells their Mac on the cheap for minor cosmetic damage, you have another Mac user with a great deal. I bought a refurb many years ago with two corner drops, a left-side gouge near the ports and scratches all over the bottom. I bought this to use at Oracle alongside my personal MacBook Pro as an Oracle laptop had to have all of their security software installed on it. It worked fine for that purpose.
 
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maflynn said:
I saw this on FB and instantly thought of this thread, lol
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Great! 🤣

Here is a screenshot from System Information Viewer on my daily driver I built in 2007:

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It started with Core2Duo and 2GB RAM. Since ~2014 it is maxed out in every aspect and I can't put in more memory than 8GB. Next year it will get 20 years old, probably "upgraded" with LinuxMint and will still be running silently as daily driver. 👍
 
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diamond.g said:
Nothing really. RAM kits with 4 sticks are going to not really be sought after by "normal" people as the memory timings/speeds aren't great and stable OC isn't really a thing with 4 sticks.
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I would rather have more ram headroom than faster ram timings. OC hasn't been a thing for me since the windows XP days. At the time windows vista and up was released, overclocking provided more stability issues than it did performance besides on benchmarks.
 
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