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This sounds awfully close to "I'll pay you in exposure!".  Don't be that guy.

 

This sounds awfully close to "I'll pay you in exposure!".  Don't be that guy.

 

This sounds awfully close to "I'll pay you in exposure!".  Don't be that guy.

 

This sounds awfully close to "I'll pay you in exposure!".  Don't be that guy.

 

This sounds awfully close to "I'll pay you in exposure!".  Don't be that guy.

 

Man..... I wish you could hear how stupid this question sounds to the rest of us.  If you don't know the answer to this question already, go talk to people who actually use their Mac for something other than posting on the Internet.
 
Here's the current Mac Mini...  still has HDMI, Ethernet, and 2x USB.


Here's the new Mac pro (turned sideways).  Still has HDMI (2x if you get two video cards), Ethernet, and 2x USB.

 
Here's the iMac Pro.  Still has SD-card, Ehternet, and 4x USB.

 
 
If Apple was actually serious about getting rid of other ports, wouldn't they have done it on their desktop products by now?
 

Don't miss the central point of my argument:  have any of these other YouTube reviewers that you "don't trust" interviewed a real, live Apple executive on their channel? 
No.  That privilege has only been granted to Marques, because they know he's "safe".
 
Same story with John Gruber getting Phill Schiller on his podcast.  Gruber is "safe" -- he's been running a Mac blog since before humanity had the word "blog".

Here's something a little different for you all.... an unopened set of Macintosh SE FDHD and Macintosh System 6 manuals, from 1989.  The SE was the first Mac I ever used, back around this time of year 30 years ago.

Here's something a little different for you all.... an unopened set of Macintosh SE FDHD and Macintosh System 6 manuals, from 1989.  The SE was the first Mac I ever used, back around this time of year 30 years ago.

Mira Yurizaki has the right answer.  But there's more to it than that.
 
When PCI was being designed in 1990-1992, there were no expansion cards that generated enough heat to require a fan.  Not that it mattered anyways.... the direction the card faced was irrelevant, because horizontally-oriented "desktop" computers (the ones which you'd put your monitor on top of) were still the dominant form factor.   The narrower "pizza box" style cases, like the PS/2 or some Macs, would turn the expansion cards sideways, but it still didn't matter since these things didn't generate much heat.
 
All of this was powered by a power supply that provided maybe 200 watts, tops, and more often than not, the PSU was the only thing in the computer with a fan.
 
Also.... the "Mid-tower" case style we all know today was almost never seen outside of network servers and high-end workstations before 1992.  Apple's first mini-tower machine, the Quadra 700, started at almot $11,000 USD in today's numbers.  Dell's tower machines were $15,000+.
 
Computers of the time also typically had 3 - 5 cards in them.  The "Baby AT" motherboard layout only had a single PS/2 plug on it for a keyboard.  If you wanted to connect a mouse, modem, printer, joystick, drawing tablet, audio, floppy drive, network, tape backup, hard drive, CD-ROM..... everything required expansion cards.  Machines could get packed pretty tightly.... but airflow still wasn't much of a thing.
 
Here's a typical motherboard from 1993, with an AMD 486 DX2 chip on it.  No heatsink required.... no fans.  Just a completely different world than what we're used to now.
 

thankyou for adding on, im generally "young" (born in second half of the 90's) and dont know alot of the history of tech. 

Mira Yurizaki has the right answer.  But there's more to it than that.
 
When PCI was being designed in 1990-1992, there were no expansion cards that generated enough heat to require a fan.  Not that it mattered anyways.... the direction the card faced was irrelevant, because horizontally-oriented "desktop" computers (the ones which you'd put your monitor on top of) were still the dominant form factor.   The narrower "pizza box" style cases, like the PS/2 or some Macs, would turn the expansion cards sideways, but it still didn't matter since these things didn't generate much heat.
 
All of this was powered by a power supply that provided maybe 200 watts, tops, and more often than not, the PSU was the only thing in the computer with a fan.
 
Also.... the "Mid-tower" case style we all know today was almost never seen outside of network servers and high-end workstations before 1992.  Apple's first mini-tower machine, the Quadra 700, started at almot $11,000 USD in today's numbers.  Dell's tower machines were $15,000+.
 
Computers of the time also typically had 3 - 5 cards in them.  The "Baby AT" motherboard layout only had a single PS/2 plug on it for a keyboard.  If you wanted to connect a mouse, modem, printer, joystick, drawing tablet, audio, floppy drive, network, tape backup, hard drive, CD-ROM..... everything required expansion cards.  Machines could get packed pretty tightly.... but airflow still wasn't much of a thing.
 
Here's a typical motherboard from 1993, with an AMD 486 DX2 chip on it.  No heatsink required.... no fans.  Just a completely different world than what we're used to now.
 

Why are you trying to maximize free memory?   Memory costs the same whether it's being used or not.  There is also no performance penalty for having RAM allocated to running programs.
 
RAM is like a fridge.  You're going to pay for refrigeration no matter what, but the more you have in it, the less likely you have to go to make a long trip to the store to get something  you want.
 

Why are you trying to maximize free memory?   Memory costs the same whether it's being used or not.  There is also no performance penalty for having RAM allocated to running programs.
 
RAM is like a fridge.  You're going to pay for refrigeration no matter what, but the more you have in it, the less likely you have to go to make a long trip to the store to get something  you want.
 

Sounds like you want the Assigned Access feature of Windows 10.  It's one of the more underrated new features of Windows 10 -- the ability to run in "kiosk" mode for digital signage, single applications without Explorer, or even multiple applications with a locked-down Start menu.  More info here:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/kiosk-methods
 
Combine that with the Automatic logon feature of Windows 10:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/324737/how-to-turn-on-automatic-logon-in-windows
 
and you should be able to accomplish what you're setting out to do

Count me in as another fan of Anthony's contributions to LTT. 
 
Even this thumbnail is just great. 

Count me in as another fan of Anthony's contributions to LTT. 
 
Even this thumbnail is just great. 

Count me in as another fan of Anthony's contributions to LTT. 
 
Even this thumbnail is just great. 

I can do that:  Typescript.
 
Typescript is widely used outside of Microsoft circles.  Angular, Ionic and NativeScript front-end frameworks are all built with it, for instance, and it's one of the fastest-growing programming languages on GitHub in terms of # of pull requests.
 
You'll also find on StackOverflow's most recent developer survey that Typescript is more widely used than Swift, Ruby, Go, or other currently popular boutique languages.... and if you leave out HTML, CSS and shell scripting, it's the 8th most popular programming language in use.  It's also ranked as the 4th most loved language, after Rust, Kotlin and Python. 
 
Hey, we can talk about Visual Studio Code, too.  The same StackOverflow developer survey has VS Code as the #1 most popular development environment.  This doesn't indicate that it's been widely adopted by FOSS developers, but it is one of only a couple of fully free, cross-platform code editors.  It's winning people over from Atom and Brackets, even people who wouldn't normally use Microsoft tools.
 
VSTS also has better bug tracking than Github, with full integration into Visual Studio.  It also has a pretty complete CI/CD system with access to Windows and Linux build agents.  $40/month for unlimited builds.

I can do that:  Typescript.
 
Typescript is widely used outside of Microsoft circles.  Angular, Ionic and NativeScript front-end frameworks are all built with it, for instance, and it's one of the fastest-growing programming languages on GitHub in terms of # of pull requests.
 
You'll also find on StackOverflow's most recent developer survey that Typescript is more widely used than Swift, Ruby, Go, or other currently popular boutique languages.... and if you leave out HTML, CSS and shell scripting, it's the 8th most popular programming language in use.  It's also ranked as the 4th most loved language, after Rust, Kotlin and Python. 
 
Hey, we can talk about Visual Studio Code, too.  The same StackOverflow developer survey has VS Code as the #1 most popular development environment.  This doesn't indicate that it's been widely adopted by FOSS developers, but it is one of only a couple of fully free, cross-platform code editors.  It's winning people over from Atom and Brackets, even people who wouldn't normally use Microsoft tools.
 
VSTS also has better bug tracking than Github, with full integration into Visual Studio.  It also has a pretty complete CI/CD system with access to Windows and Linux build agents.  $40/month for unlimited builds.

Have you tried running Windows Memory Diagnostic or memtest86?

Microsoft blocked this patch from distribution this morning.  You must've picked up the patch before they blocked it.
 
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4073707/windows-os-security-update-block-for-some-amd-based-devices
 

https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/microsoftsecure/2018/01/09/understanding-the-performance-impact-of-spectre-and-meltdown-mitigations-on-windows-systems/
 
Read the whole thing, it's interesting, but here's the part a lot of us want to know about:
 

Microsoft blocked this patch from distribution this morning.  You must've picked up the patch before they blocked it.
 
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4073707/windows-os-security-update-block-for-some-amd-based-devices