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I'd do that too if it's just for storing material at home. Otherwise, if you want a cheapo used server for doing whatever you are doing, I'd look at sites like ITXchange or places like that. You can find good bargains on used servers.

I'm behind Microsoft employees on this one. Like all great inventions, there's always someone somewhere that will weaponize new technologies. If it would have been a technology developed by and for the military from the ground up, I would not say but it's not that. These engineers developed a tool to make it easier for people to build buildings and assemble critical equipment. I don't remember if it was NASA, SpaceX or some other Aerospatial companies but they were showing footage of hololens being used to make sure every bolts were screwed to a device (a rocket I think). That's what this device was built for and the reason why these engineers signed on the project in the first place. What's worse in all of this beside yet an another technology being weaponized is that it will dehumanize war even more. They are right by calling out that Hololens augmented soldiers will be eventually be playing IRL Call of Duty. We have drones and I don't see any reasons why the next step would not be remote controlled tanks and vehicles. We'll reach an another milestone once a country creates a "battle" robot.

2470 CAD rupees + taxes for the highest one. Yikes. Something is telling me that my boss will ask me to stick to the 128GB model!

I'm in the laptop camp. If it's for business and budget is not really an issue, a good old decked out ThinkPad T5xx with a docking station + a nice monitor setup would be my go to.

I'm really digging the blocky look of that card.

If MSI is confused by all the scrambling going on over at Intel, I imagine that pretty much every board partners are in the same boat at the moment. Intel being mad at MSI for selling more competitor boards because they can't deliver the necessary supply to move a decent amount of boards is pushing it to be honest.

At the moment, it feels that it comes with your physical location and battery technology more than anything else. I'm not sure I would go full EV with the last couple of days we had in our part. If we lived in Arizona, going full EV would have been a no brainer but, with -20 across the board in our dear province... I'd rather go with an hybrid. That being said, I'm not in the market to buy a new car for the next 5-6 years so, car manufacturers have plenty of time to come up with new ideas and new technology to change my mind :p.

Yes, my bad I was referring the manufacturers as the OEMs in general since OP has a Dell on his hands.

In the case of 8, 8.1, 10, it's just a "Windows" sticker ;).

It's a hot mess right now. We're almost in December and the October update is still wonky. I've been spared so far but I can't wait to wake up to a full office being completely down because of a borked W10 update in the near future. They are clearly using us as guinea pig and I don't find it funny. They are rushing updates out to meet their schedule and they don't have the necessary Q&A personnel to test is because, well, they fired so many people in the last couple of years. As much as I like and I advocate for Office 365, I don't appreciate how they are treating their flagship product. Moving the Windows division under the Azure division should tell where their priorities reside at the moment.

I only had hand on experiences with the Lenovo's laptop in that list so I can't speak for the Dell and HP laptops of that generation. The T440p configuration should be a bit beefier than the T440s by default but the T440s size should fit your bill. Both have security features and have plenty of connectivity. Both T440 should be strong contender choices but you need to figure if you want more portability or more power. Having an aging T420 that I still use occasionally and a T460s as my daily driver, I'd lean toward the T440s if you don't need the horsepower. You will appreciate the portability and the small footprint of the s model especially if you are always on the go. I need to change mine next year and I'll probably end up upgrading to a X1 Carbon or a T490s. I'm not going back to bulkier laptops!

Honestly, even with tariffs on them, I won't change my SeaSonic buying habits because of that. They are pretty much the only computer parts company that gets a free pass from me because of their good track record and general product quality over their entire stack of products. So yeah, that 10$ will be cut somewhere else in my builds if need be. I'm not cheaping out on the PSU because of that.

that neon green PATA port though ?

Good job AMD, that was a great presentation. Nothing against Milan but I can't wait to see what's after in their roadmap. At the rate they are going, I would not be surprised to see next-gen 256C/512T, DDR5, PCIe 5.0.

Yup, that's it. I was taking pills to sleep because I was getting more and more exhausted as days passed by. Basically I was never able to get into a deep sleep state because my body would wake up dozens of times every night. As soon as I switched to my CPAP, I never had to take pills again and felt more rested every morning when I woke up. I've went from 35+ events /h to 0.2 events /h in the first week of using it. On a seperate note I have type 1 diabete. Since I switched, my sugar level is much more stable when I wake up, even my HbA1C value has seen some improvement in the past 6 months (5.6 -> 5.4) without changing anything else drastically.

I took sleeping pills for a while but I ended up with a severe sleep apnea diagnostic (35+ events /h). My girlfriend would wake up at night, freak out thinking I was dead and poke me to see if I was still alive because I was not breathing ?. I've started using a CPAP about 6 months ago following the diagnostic and it made a huge difference. I feel a lot more rested since I've been using it and would not sleep without it anymore. The few times I fell asleep without it since I got it, I felt like s*** the following morning. I put my mask on even for short naps because I usually end up with headache without. That being said, I don't have any weird habits or routine but it's pretty much the same pattern every night. 1. Plug in my CPAP 2. Turn right to kiss my girlfriend 3. Turn on my back and holding her hand until she falls asleep 4. Turn left and fall asleep

Sorry, that's the first thing that popped off in my head when I saw your post ?

It really depends of the user's use case. I would not recommend an accountant a 14" laptop due to the lack of full length keyboard for example. As for a marketing department, again it really depends of the use case. If it's only for PowerPoint presentations, I'd stick to a 14". Video presentations in a 1-to-1 interview format is a valid point for 15.6" otherwise a 2-in-1 / tablet would be also good alternatives. In the end, YOU are the IT, you need valid arguments to change your mind. If you decided 14" was the way to go for the company, she has the weight to make you change your mind on her shoulder. If it's just a matter of a status symbol (because it seems to be the case here), stick to your guns and give her a 14" like everyone else. If she has valid points and concerns about using 14" instead of a 15.6", listen to her and make your own call afterward. Just don't **** your deployment plan because one user wanted to play princess, that's my advice. Now, personally, if she came to me, called me stupid and gave me as for sole reason that travel excuse, boy she would have left my office faster that she came in! I'm getting too old for that kind of shit lol. Sometimes I feel that we are way too soft with users that just want bigger toys for the sake of it.

I remember back in the days when I had to sneak in Mortal Kombat II and Killer Instinct to play them and hide them when my parents were home. Oh boy, how time fly ?.

a bit cynical but, man, it's on point and reflect a lot of companies point of view when it comes to IT cost. "Windows 98?! Why would I upgrade my perfectly working PII 200MHz running that crappy serial connected punch clock I paid 500$ 20 years ago!?" I'm starting to see a shift in companies mentality though, especially with younger presidents/CEO. They are starting to notice that for 5G, they need to be ahead of the curve or else they will be left in the dust of their competitors. They are starting to realize that the 1980's way of doing things is going away.

Pretty much any level of Office 365 business plans come with SharePoint Online nowadays. They are pushing it and its integration pretty hard to be honest and I don't doubt they will keep expanding the product. The only problem is usually how the people perceive the product. People mistakes it to be a regular file server and misses the point of the product completely. Microsoft seems to be aware of that and are trying to come up with a "OneDrive File Server" kind of thing. We will see how it pans out. That being said, it's really good for SMBs but it could benefit larger operations too. Like I said, the cost of maintenance of these servers (professionals time, extra IT personnel, downtime for maintenance, overtime, etc.) tends to be greater than a monthly/annual sub for each users inside an organization.

As a professional user, I like Office 365. As a SharePoint business integrator, I'm never going back to any on-premise solution unless a company is located somewhere where Internet is an issue. There's so much to 365 than just Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Outlook and it's expanding every day. From the easy provisioning/license management it gives us to the security the Cloud offers, it outweights any OEM key management and reliability issues we have with an on-premise setup. The same thing applies to Exchange. You're basically offloading any potential hardware and software configuration issues to Microsoft doing that. Trust me, in the end, it will cost you a lot more in maintenance by having me sitting in front of a computer trying to figure out what's going with your mailflow at 3AM in the morning when someone borks out a CU update on your Exchange Server than paying a monthly fee for X number of Office 365 licenses and be done with 95% of the maintenance. However, for the average Joe that I build a computer for, I usually install Libre Office because, for the 2-3 times they will use Calc in a month, it's not worth it. TL;DR: Personal = whatever floats your boat in terms of need, basic stuff = libre office, basic stuff + drive = 365 Professional = Office 365

There's that. No point in doing 120 wpm if even 1/4 of it is not typed correctly.

I just tried an online tool to see how I was faring. Considering the tool had words in english in no specific order (trust me, it's making a difference, my head was trying to translate all along the process) and I was not using my normal office setup, I was managing 55-60 wpm without any issues. I reran the test just on my laptop keyboard and I was up to 80 wpm. According to the webpage, I was better than 72% of the users taking their test at 55 wpm. I bet I'd be hitting at least 85-90 wpm with my office setup with real life content. If I compare to people around me right now, they're probably doing 35-40 wpm and it seems perfectly acceptable for what they are doing.

I'm pretty sure they never considered themselves "mainstream" in the first place. I'm sure they were never geared to be mainstream either. What differentiated CaseLabs from the rest of the case manufacturers out there was the quality of the product, the upgradability and the customization of their cases. The sheer number of configurations possible would have been a logistical nightmare for a company like Corsair for example who would need to switch their mass produce business model to something more of a mass produce/built-to-order hybrid for some of their lineup causing inventory overhead for specific parts and such. It's not going to happen. CoolerMaster seems to do it to some extent with the MasterCase series but absolutely not at the insane customization level CaseLabs was doing with each case in their lineup. Add to that that we don't know how well the whole custom thing is going for CoolerMaster either. I respect them in a sense that they felt that their customers were looking for the best case all around and, if that meant that mass producing was not meeting their specific criteria of absolute perfection, they decided to go the built-to-order way. They were artisans creating timeless pieces of art.