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ASUS do have a UK store, but the article doesn't mention whether it was bought directly from there. The fact that they settled doesn't set a *legal* precedent, but it does set a precedent - that they are likely to settle similar cases. Unless they have thousands of people all trying to get refunds, I imagine ASUS will probably just do the same thing they did for this case.

I'm guessing it was the ZenFone 9 that they bought, which apparently previously had the bootloader unlock available but was then removed in later software updates.

Summary A Zenfone user in the UK filed a small claims court case against ASUS for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools as they had previously promised. ASUS has settled case with the user, who received payment covering the phones original cost (£700) and the court filing fee (£70) I'm glad somebody has finally called out phone manufacturers over broken promises and 'won'. If any of you are in the UK and have a bootloader locked Zenfone then this is certainly an option Source: https://www.androidauthority.com/asus-bootloader-unlock-settlement-3431818/

It's interesting that we're finally getting some legal precedent set on this. Along with some of the other stuff that has been happening in the space, I bet more companies will think twice about just slapping AI/LLM chatbots all over their sites.

4c4t is still enough (that's what I run), although it is pushing it. Newer games will run better with more cores, but not a necessity yet.

I honestly don't know, I run a completely overkill watercooling loop. You *should* be able to run at least 4.0-4.4 GHz with an air cooler as long as you don't lose the silicon lottery (which can happen). p.s. don't hold me to anything... overclocking is overclocking

Yuuup. I run my 4690k at 4.8-4.9 GHz (all core) from the stock 3.5 all core / 3.9 single core. It makes a big difference

What I meant was why is outside your computer?!

...what? why on earth was your AIO on your desk to begin with

While the IPC increase is little (they are very similar architectures), the 32 to 22 nm jump is a big TDP drop which allows for more potential overclock in the future (ever so slightly increasing system lifespan) at the 4 core playground single-core counts much more than multicore imo.

I would just say 3570k. It has the newest architecture (important at this age mobo) and has unlocked multiplier (which you should be able to utilise using your motherboard). While hyperthreading is nice it is only a ~15-30% increase in multi-core speed, while having an Ivy bridge processor over sandy bridge will bring higher single core speed (especially important at this age-point CPU [I would take fractional single-core improvement over an ok-ish multi-core improvement ]) and also lower TDP.

Even with a 1TB SSD boot drive, I would still recommend a (~2TB?) HDD for games and such. 1TB turns out to be less then you might think (I talk from experience).

You can only clone the main partition and not lose any data (assuming you made no other partitions manually), however you will lose any system restore points if you delete the smaller ones that windows creates by default.

Yeah, that is the one problem with USB liveboots - they aren't designed for long lifetimes and can degrade rather quickly Edit: True. That is why is put the word 'personally', I do know there are a lot of people uncomfortable with the linux command line.