Professor Dingledore

Interesting.The last image makes me think of a Commodore 64 merged with an Atari 2600. Although the Commodore rainbow color order is different.

Depending on where you live, and due to the US-China trade war, there's going to be a 25% tax added to any electronic parts made in China. So that means any hardware that's built in either the US or China using Chinese manufactured components is going to be more expensive. This tax goes into effect on Aug 23rd. So if you can buy now.... you may want to buy now.

Looking forward to seeing where this goes. I'm desperate to put a console-like PC in my living room, so this is PC porn for me.

That is the front. No IO shield cutout.

Looks nice, no ketchup and mustard cables. The fan is supposed to be on the other side of the cooler though isn't it? pushing air through the cooler instead of pulling. Did the cooler fan not clear the memory modules?

I suspect they've run the tests multiple times and the printed numbers are just rounded. The bar lengths are accurate but the numbers aren't. If they're going to do that, maybe the charts should be clear that the benchmarks are averaging 2 or 3 (or more) test runs.

By comparison my full-size 1070 is idling at 45°C. 50° does't seem bad at all for the mini variant. Is it in an sff case of some sort? That can also affect temps.

and skill with cad software that I wish I had a fraction of

I had both a BlackWidow and DeathAdder as well. Several years ago, and both failed for me within the first 18 months. The rubber separated from the mouse wheel and the paint came off the tops of several keys. It was the first time I'd spent some serious money on a keyboard and mouse and with 100% of the products breaking down so quickly compared to competitors offerings I've been hesitant to ever try Razor hardware again.

The flames on the side bring back nightmares of my computer salesman days. lol. Have a look at this unsightly thing.

Jayztwocents and Bitwit are my two favorites. Followed by HardwareCanucks. Pauls Hardware isn't bad. LinusTechTips isn't bad either. It would be higher, but I find a lot of the videos either don't interest me or are just plain stupid. I also like watching Singularity Computers and Dietec for modding, but neither one is really a tech-tuber so to speak.

WIthout seeing a pic of the S/N sticker, it sounds like a way for the manufacturer to ensure the buyer can't peel them off and place them on something else.. Edit: whoops, didn't see the answer above.

I used to work at Future Shop, and Computer City. Both are gone, but it's not my fault lol. We had intel reps show up and they would put intel stickers and badges on various shelves and would chat with the staff. They were never pushy with their talking points. We were never told what to say to customers. System manufacturers on the other hand were a completely different story. They were sometimes pushy and sometimes committed to blowing smoke up your butt. I remember when we were selling Compaq Presario 4764's and the Compaq rep starts his speech with "Did you know Compaq stands for compatibility and quality". Anyone who's worked in that PC case knows that statement to be false.

Pharaoh & Cleopatra (yep, I'm old lol) Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom Stellaris Frostpunk (maybe. There aren't enough scenarios yet but I truly love the game)

I'm gonna call BS on this. Or at the very least say your experience is outdated. I tested Chrome, Firefox and Edge on my PC shortly after 1803 (or is it 1804) was released. I was actually looking to switch browsers, so this isn't me trying to be a Chrome fanboi. Opening the same sites on all three browsers. Chrome was the most efficient in terms of memory usage with Edge consistently at the back of the pack. I opened 10 tabs per "window" and it wasn't until I got to 30 tabs / 3 windows that Firefox finally closed the gap. If the trend continues Firefox is only more efficient when you have 30+ tabs open. That doesn't fit my usage as I rarely have more than 15 tabs total open. Despite the fact Chrome was more memory efficient, the whole experience was very eye opening for me. Edge in 1803 is leaps and bounds ahead of where it was. I'd actually like to use it as my default browser but it's just not there yet. It has a clean UI that I prefer to Chrome's. I like the flyout for bookmarks etc. It's reading view is much nicer than what I use in Chrome with the Mercury reader plugin, but I found it doesn't do enough to stop popups/pop-unders. Chrome and Firefox, even WITHOUT plugins do a far better job of this. I have sites on my own lan that Edge doesn't like to open the uTorrent WebUI is one. Edge also cripples Disqus. It's half the speed of Chrome and it's even worse if you install the uBlock Origin plugin. Firefox... The test I mentioned above was the first time I'd used it since long before the Quantum refresh. It was far superior to what I remember. it was really easy to import all my Chrome passwords and bookmarks. It just took a tiny bit of monkeying to get the bookmark bar the way I wanted. I couldn't find a Firefox equivalent for several plugins that I use regularly. The UI is nicer than Chrome, but not as good as Edge IMO. I'm glad the second search box is gone but hate that the address bar doesn't fill the entire width between the two groups of icons. I also despise the way Firefox organizes bookmarks. If it's not on the bookmark bar, it's more clicking to get to. Long story short. None of the big 3 truly sucks and none of them are vastly superior to the other 2. Edit: Thought I should also disclose that the memory usage tab test I mention above was done on a fairly new machine with 32GB of RAM so paging to disk was never an issue even with all the browsers open at once. Users with 8GB or even 4GB or less may see different results.