Recent content by SlicEnDicE

Speaking of RAM prices. I upgraded my AMD Laptop with a second identical stick of 16GB RAM. Lenovo wanted 330€ for it. I found the same stick elsewhere for about 90€ incl. shipping. Was still quite salty price at the time. I don't even dare to imagine what that same purchase would be now from...

Because I've bought some unknown brand RAM, which name I don't recall anymore, and it was very cheap but it's good. EDIT: I've used in one of my laptops for a while and then I moved the sticks to my NAS. DDR3L 2 x 8GB. They've been in use over a year now without any issues.

I doubt that. They're good quality, just not known outside China.

RAM and other unknown chip purchases and usage for major computer manufacturers has already begun. There has already been many reports of them using unknown brand chips mainly coming from China and other smaller fabs.

The feature to remove AI was added to 4.14. Haven't tried this myself though...

I would not have an issue with Windows 11, if it didn't rub me in the wrong direction at every corner. The core OS works really well and is rock solid. Remove all the bloat, give the user power to choose what they want and definitely don't force OneDrive, AI, Hardware requirements and Online...

Yep, not far off the truth there. Prices are ridiculous now.

Yeah, they could aswell has made the microchanges for core features on Windows 10, and kept the rest intact.

LOL, I've been looking at HDD (yes a spinner) and RAM upgrades for a while and the price is at least 3 times as high as it was a while ago. And the worst part is that even if you had the money, it would be hard to get any parts. Sad times.

Oh, Windows 2000. I liked it because it was very stable. BUT, it was really slow and left a lot of performance on the table on multi CPU sytems and high end GPUs. At that time Linux was (not even lying) at least twice if not three times as efficient on a dual CPU system. I don't know what MS...

Windows 11 is alright. Could be better though. Still a lot of bloat floating around, but generally quite usable. MS woke up a bit from all the backlash, so in the future I hope Windows 11 will be a bit leaner with less garbage roaming around in the background.

None of those actually. Those are things I've done too, and they are resource hogs, but that is not Windows fault. The real issue is Windows itself. Right now it focuses more on doing everything else except what the user wants. Every new iteration has become worse. Even MS knows and has...

Money is a completely different topic. It is besides the point. Windows is currently struggling a bit. But not all is Windows fault. Apps are getting ridiculously resource hungry too, due to being mostly sloppily written webapp implementations that seem to focus more on non user features that...

Sometimes real absolute minimum Windows 11 25H2 requirements feels like they should be 32GB RAM and at least a 2TB PCIe gen 5 NVMe drive. When really starting to work, it feels like not even that is enough. At least 500GB SSD as a system drive is starting to feel very tiny. I have that amount...

Yeah, kind of an insurance. Important if your livelihood is relying on having a working machine at all times. Makes a lot of sense to me.