On 3/6/21 4:52 am, antlists wrote:
> On 28/05/2021 17:17, Walter Dnes wrote:
>>> Anything with spinning disk "is obsolete" they are trying to give it
>>> way because nobody is buying them (you can buy them for few dollars),
>>> don't expect it to last long.
>>
>> I've never had a hard drive fa
On 28/05/2021 17:17, Walter Dnes wrote:
Anything with spinning disk "is obsolete" they are trying to give it
way because nobody is buying them (you can buy them for few dollars),
don't expect it to last long.
I've never had a hard drive fail on me. That includes a 2008 core2
duo that I shut
On Thursday, May 27, 2021 11:35:33 PM CEST Alarig Le Lay wrote:
> On Thu 27 May 2021 17:05:07 GMT, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > * do NVMe drives function well under Gentoo (driver issues, etc)?
>
> I have a NVMe drive on my corporate laptop (a lenovo) and I don’t have
> any issue with it.
>
> PS: I agr
On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 09:13:40AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote
> I don't know what happened between last year and now, but Dell's
> XPS8940's now all seem to come with NVME (expensive) and fancy-shmancy
> Nvidia (i.e expensive) video. Also, reading the specs on the website
> *V-E-R-R-R-R-Y* caref
> Anything with spinning disk "is obsolete" they are trying to give it
> way because nobody is buying them (you can buy them for few dollars),
> don't expect it to last long.
I've never had a hard drive fail on me. That includes a 2008 core2
duo that I shut down last autumn. Web surfing was ge
Hello, Walter.
On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 17:05:07 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> It was nice to have a newer "hot backup" (XPS8940) to switch over to
> quickly when an older machine started locking up occasionally. Now I
> need a "hot backup" for the newer machine that I ordered last October.
> Dell
On 5/28/21 8:16 AM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> On 5/28/21 7:13 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
>> On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 06:11:51PM -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote
>>> On 5/27/21 3:05 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
It was nice to have a newer "hot backup" (XPS8940) to switch over to
quickly wh
On 5/28/21 7:13 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 06:11:51PM -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote
>> On 5/27/21 3:05 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
>>> It was nice to have a newer "hot backup" (XPS8940) to switch over to
>>> quickly when an older machine started locking up occasionally. No
On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 06:11:51PM -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote
> On 5/27/21 3:05 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > It was nice to have a newer "hot backup" (XPS8940) to switch over to
> > quickly when an older machine started locking up occasionally. Now I
> > need a "hot backup" for the newer
On 5/27/21 3:05 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> It was nice to have a newer "hot backup" (XPS8940) to switch over to
> quickly when an older machine started locking up occasionally. Now I
> need a "hot backup" for the newer machine that I ordered last October.
> Dell Inspirons seem to top out at 12 gig
On 5/27/21 3:05 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> It was nice to have a newer "hot backup" (XPS8940) to switch over to
> quickly when an older machine started locking up occasionally. Now I
> need a "hot backup" for the newer machine that I ordered last October.
> Dell Inspirons seem to top out at 12 gig
On 5/27/21 4:47 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
Showing my age... I started using linux on a spare machine with 16
***MEGA***bytes of ram approx year 1999 or 2000, and the ram was
perfectly sufficient.
Yep. I did similar.
Though I think /what/ is done *and* /how/ it is done are significantly
differe
On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 11:35:33PM +0200, Alarig Le Lay wrote
> PS: I agree on the linux bloatiness, I have 4G of RAM on my personal
> laptop and it begins to run out sometime???
Showing my age... I started using linux on a spare machine with
16 ***MEGA***bytes of ram approx year 1999 or 2000,
On 5/27/21 3:05 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
All current XPS models seem to have 256G or 512G M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid
State drives in the base configuration. Questions...
* do NVMe drives function well under Gentoo (driver issues, etc)?
I've not had any problems with them. They do show up as a differ
On Thu 27 May 2021 17:05:07 GMT, Walter Dnes wrote:
> * do NVMe drives function well under Gentoo (driver issues, etc)?
I have a NVMe drive on my corporate laptop (a lenovo) and I don’t have
any issue with it.
PS: I agree on the linux bloatiness, I have 4G of RAM on my personal
laptop and it begi
On Thursday, 27 May 2021 22:05:07 BST Walter Dnes wrote:
> It was nice to have a newer "hot backup" (XPS8940) to switch over to
> quickly when an older machine started locking up occasionally. Now I
> need a "hot backup" for the newer machine that I ordered last October.
> Dell Inspirons seem to
It was nice to have a newer "hot backup" (XPS8940) to switch over to
quickly when an older machine started locking up occasionally. Now I
need a "hot backup" for the newer machine that I ordered last October.
Dell Inspirons seem to top out at 12 gigs ram, so I'm looking for an XPS
model in order
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