[AccessD] Black friday laptop for $599

[James Button]

John,

Thanks for the pre-Xmas post.

I got a 'replacement' PC a couple of years ago, 

I7, 512GB and 8GB RAM, with Home,2x  USB-A @ 3.1 and 1 USB-c basic
functionality.
Fast,  but had to get USB-c to A converters  as there does not seem to be any
1->4 hubs with more than 1 USB-c , so using the -c in the PC to get 1 USB-c
socket is no benefit 
That system having Home does not have the security facilities that the old
system with Pro has.
For 11 it seems that you need the hardware and the Pro for the added security.
Also - from reading I should have got 16GB RAM, and for sandbox and the
multi-tab facilities that I used to have with IE, I will need more than 16GB  in
a couple of years of MS updates to win 11.

Adding RAM - What about the  you opened the case - warrantee considerations!

( Still find that OneDrive needs about 4GB of the pagefile for file uploads - my
30+  4GB parts of a system backup.) 
Ooo-owww  - look at the EDGE activity 12 entries under Task-Manager details.
And that is for less than the sort of workload that I can run in the ancient 2GB
RAM Win-7 system.

The old system Lenovo 2GB 12TB, 2 core CPU, is now almost always using the 8GB
pagefile for any user 'action', lots of the OS activities in background.
I am also finding that Excel has problems with things like a 1000 row, 15 column
copy and paste special values  sometimes reporting insufficient memory .
and I suspect that is Real RAM  with the clipboard involved - Maybe a VBA script
will be better user selects a source range,  and the script asks for a target
location - option 8? on a user response to a message - point to the 'target' -
avoid the clipboard and use Value2

Last time I looked  the sort of system I would (it appears) need for by 2025 for
win-11 will be running at well over £1000 + VAT(20%) in the UK
Probably a newer series of I7 or equivalent CPU 
I would also recommend at least 2 fast USB-c ports and a memory card slot, as
well as a high res HDMI ( or similar capability) port, or very fast WiFi for a
4K display when 'at home'.

Backup ( SSD? If uploading to cloud, otherwise 4TB hard drive for bulk storage)
- and the card for internal storage expansion
If using Cloud  you will need a reasonably fast upload connection -
 but the cloud provider will (should) keep their own backup of what you upload 
 so 4TB of cloud is the same as 2x4TB drives in the home, with the added benefit
of off-site security.
(theft, cryptomalware, PC blow-up while the drive is connected, OS glitch with
the partition table or MFT, oops moment with the delete key,
or just past it's 1 year warrantee/max usage limit - and a single  1 in 10^14
error  
( 1TB is 10^13 bits, a 4GB file is 32,000,000,000 bits, over 10^10 - lose one of
a 30 file set, and that's that backup incomplete, or unreadable  


Regards, and thanks for the advisory post.
 
JimB

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<accessd-bounces+jamesbutton=blueyonder.co.uk at databaseadvisors.com> On Behalf Of
John Colby
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2022 2:59 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
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Subject: [AccessD] Black friday laptop for $599

Someone was looking for a powerful but inexpensive laptop.  In the US this
fits that bill...

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Lenovo-Legion-5-15-6-Ryzen-5-5600H-GeForce-RTX-3050-T
i-8GB-RAM-512GB-SSD-Phantom-Blue-Windows-11-Home-82JW00Q7US/1097527049?athbdg=L1
800

I haven't done a deep dive but I'm guessing that it has 8gb soldered down
with 8 gig empty slot.   It says 16 g max, but only comes with 8gb.
-- 
John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
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