Kent Borg said on Mon, 17 Jun 2024 09:45:26 -0700
>On 6/16/24 20:04, Steve Litt wrote:
>> Also, just for fun, reseat all your
>> daughtercards and ramsticks and cables, internal and external.
>> Elapsed time: Maybe an hour.
>
>An hour? No way. This is the smallest reasonable notebook computer
On 6/17/24 10:23, Rich Pieri wrote:
I was burned quite badly doing this not too long ago: Intel changing
sockets after Haswell, nVidia dropping the MXM socket entirely, leaving
me with a very expensive "upgradeable" computer with no upgrade path.
And Framework has not magically solved that proble
On Mon, 17 Jun 2024 09:45:26 -0700
Kent Borg wrote:
> I suspect the video hardware because have seen occasional funny video
> glitches, basically from the start. II assumed driver problems, GPUs
> are not well documented and probably full debt. It has otherwise been
> a reliable machine, the gli
On 6/16/24 20:04, Steve Litt wrote:
Yeah, don't spend $1200. I know it memchecked OK, but did you do a
smart tools check on your disks?
The only "disk" is the internal Micron 2200S NVMe 512GB SSD, and
"smartctl -a /dev/nvme…" (of each its five devices) seems completely
happy. Though for a 4-y
Kent Borg said on Sun, 16 Jun 2024 13:48:41 -0700
>Intermittent, and has been going on forever. Sometimes I'll go for
>weeks without noticing it. Rebooting seems to help, but I don't often
>bother.
>
>Possibly I have an actual HW problem, have had it for years, and it is
>getting worse. Donno. M
On 6/15/24 18:01, Steve Litt wrote:
Let's start by getting this out of the way: Does this computer have an
nVidea video card?
No, just the Intel GPU, which I don't use anyway.
Though I do suspect it: For a very long time I have occasionally (only
occasionally) noticed what looks like some swa
Kent Borg wrote:
> My Dell XPS 13 7390 is getting old creaky, and at nearly 4-years, it isn't
> new, but how annoying, it has been a nice machine.
>
>
> Grrr. I don't want to spend a bunch of money on a new computer right now.
> But the battery is supposedly only 57% of what it used to be. The t
Minor point, but this is not a bad time of year to find a computer at a low
price. School's out, nowhere near back-to-school season, no Christmas rush.
On Sat, Jun 15, 2024, at 7:38 PM, Kent Borg wrote:
> My Dell XPS 13 7390 is getting old creaky, and at nearly 4-years, it
> isn't new, but how
On Sat, 15 Jun 2024 12:38:39 -0700
Kent Borg wrote:
> Do I want an AMD Ryzon 7040 or an Intel i5-1340P? Is one better
> better supported for Linux for these days…?
I say go all in with Ryzen w/ AMD graphics.
I tried Tumbleweed on my old Razer Blade 15 (2019) and it runs fine but
dealing with th
