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You have 2 partitions or 2 drives installed with Windows 10 on them. The boot manager does a quick look for Windows installations, and sees the two, and offers to boot whichever one you want.

When you talk about monopolies and rural internet, it is definitely a crapfest. Now, land based ISPs will try to argue they aren't a monopoly in a lot of rural areas, because satellite is 'everywhere' (except where geography makes 'seeing' the satellite impossible, which is a good number of places) - but the service is incomparable. I went from satellite as the only real option to DSL once fiber was laid next to the small village where my CO is, and the phone line infrastructure is total crap out here. Farmers wreck the little phone line junction boxes a lot, but the telco won't try to hold them accountable, nor bother to fix them, because 'they'll just get broken again'. Never mind that flush to the ground 'surface' boxes exist, and would reduce the problems by a ton, they won't invest in the infrastructure. As for cable - if you aren't on a corridor between 2 major markets, forget it. Only reason I had cable internet in the mountain town where I used to live, was because the cable provider for the city on the eastern side of the mountains was originally based on the western side, and they ran trunks up over the mountains. All of the towns in the canyon were served because of that, and they actually ditched a few after that city exploded in population, and got a major terrestrial connection (presumably major fiber lines) run down from the north, so they didn't need the over the mountain run. The fuss made over a 3mbps connection 'sucking' is to me a whiny child with very first world problems. When my connection works right, I top out at just double that, and that's after I was lucky enough to get terrestrial connectivity here. I'd have better speeds if they had enough copper laid and working, but alas, that's more infrastructure the telco doesn't want to invest in. Until the US decides to commit to broadband infrastructure like it did for rural electrification and phone connectivity, and we lay fiber out to the majority of what is now served by copper or cable, there'll be an internet caste system.

I'd be more bothered by not being able to make the OneDrive and Meet Now icons go away. Well, shouldn't you still be able to stop OneDrive from running at startup?

I wonder how accurate the images are on the website vs what you'll get in actual product. Will the cable management be as good? Let us know when you get it. Also, this isn't what most of us would think of as a 'prebuilt' system - this is a build not unlike any component build a DIYer would do, just been assembled for you. If you'd gotten a DellAlienware, or HPOmen commodity type system, and paid that much, you would've been much more seriously ripped off. With that system, at least you can truly upgrade it over time, with standard components.

If the table and monitor arms were of the parallelogram type, it wouldn't shake nearly as much. I'm surprised they didn't try that type of setup.

There aren't many good options for external drives, nor convenient card readers, with a good connectivity standard. There are extremely few that are both, and none that include the wide array of formats needed.

My lady works in a print shop as the graphic artist, and they got a new system for their graphical work. Because gaming systems have the specs that lend themselves pretty well to their workflow, they opted to get a Dell Alienware system. One thing they kind of overlooked was the lack of optical drive and media reader - there's not even anyplace to put them in the current Dyson fan looking cases. I can easily find 5.25" optical drives that'll read and write Bluray on down, and media reader front panel inserts for 3.5" and even 5.25" bays. In ages past, you could find little external case enclosures for 5.25" drives, with internal boards to go from IDE or even SATA to USB, to allow you to add external drives. For the life of me, I can't find them anymore. Closest I've come is mATX or mITX cases, but they're sort of overkill (although maybe not entirely). Have any of you seen a source for external drive enclosures? I have a second problem to solve, which might necessitate building a mATX or mITX system to solve the issue, and that's the way those media reader breakout panels connect. Haven't found one that outputs via a SATA connector, which if I could find one of these external drive enclosure cases, it would likely just offer a SATA connection internally. The variety of media formats clients pull out of their archives is just about ridiculous, so the breakout panel has to have formats like Sony Memory Stick Pro/Pro Duo, xD, M2, and CF, beyond the usual SD/MMC family of cards. That basically only comes in internal USB connectivity form. Seems like there's got to be some kind of external 'media importer' someone would make to solve this problem, but I haven't seen one yet.

How about a video measuring how much time is spent on the human work vs the infrastructure, when making your videos? In light of the recent 100GBs networking video, I began to wonder when the human would be the absolute slowest component of the video making process. When I was regularly making YouTube videos back in 2007-2009, I used to be able to edit the project for a 5-7 minute video in as little as 20 minutes, then it would take my old Athlon 850mhz system well over an hour to process it, and later my Intel Mac mini would take at least as long as the editing process to render the video. So, I basically reached the point where I was the bottleneck. Being a definite amateur, I know a pro should be able to either do the same work faster, or much better work in the same time.

At what point does the bottleneck in the workflow of making videos stop being speed at which the raw footage can be moved, and the speed at which the human editor can manipulate the footage to compose the final project?

BTW, 8gb is basically the minimum flash drive size, but if you want to get 32 and 64 bit, Home and Pro versions, get at least a 32gb flash drive. It'll make it so you have a handy way to reinstall to any system you want.

She would make a good agent for Secret Shopper next go around.

India is in a business game not unlike China - you can get your outsourced product, in a quality proportional to what you spend to get it. In China, it is physical products, but in India, it is usually service products. The downside of such money scaled business models is that the bottom breeds a lot of outright fraudulent businesses, and that bleeds upward into the middle of the same industry. Watch Jim Brownings video about scams, and so far basically ALL of the call centers have been in India. The reason? Not because India is some terrible, shady culture - because with so many call centers, it is easy to pick up the infrastructure, skills, and labor to make one for any business, including illicit ones. That's why you'll get a range of decent phone support to outright scams, and you'll hear the same accent in the voice. The Dell 'rep' being an outsourced worker creates this problem for a variety of reasons, but geography plays less of a role than greed. Dell's greed means they'll go for the cheapest, while setting their standards and expectations toward maximum profit. Sure, if you are literally on the other side of the planet it is easier to treat people less nicely and honestly, but you still need a motivation to do so. I'm sure Dell pushes their outsourced call centers to produce high numbers of warranty upsells, as the sales to redemption numbers are seriously in their favor. Dell probably even pays the call center a per sale, direct incentive to upsell the warranties. Might even do the same for antivirus upsells (which Dell doesn't even have to support once sold - BONUS!). That would get passed along by the call center either in a commission to the rep (ideally), or as a quota upon which one's employment might rely (crappiest situation). That means the rep was motivated to fraudulently add the warranties, without concern for serious repercussions. As I noted in the YouTube comments, the rep probably won't be fired, but could be removed from the Dell operations of what is likely a call center serving many companies globally. So, for this 'scam', they're not likely to lose their job, but be reassigned to another vendor's support, where similar conditions would eventually lead to a similar outcome, because companies be greedy things.

I do think one thing needs to be added to the 'tests' for another round of the next (inevitable?) Secret Shopper: a 'customer experience' test, where you just let a real human play some games, that isn't one of the more savvy staffers. This whole thing is based on someone who can't or won't build their own PC under any circumstances buying one from a system integrator instead. Sara's experience with ordering and tech support is very clearly included, but I'd like to then see their 'agent' representing the not as tech savvy consumer actually using the system, to see how they like them. Let's see just how different an experience they offer to a more casual gamer that buys rather than builds their system. This might tend to favor the likes of Origin a little more, if they can't really tell a difference in the gameplay experience between higher and lower spec machines. Also, other than the inclusion of streaming their gaming, there's no indication this test is based around a seriously competitive gamer, just someone who enjoys gaming. I do think someone else's idea in a comment on YouTube would be good to add, too, and still could be to this one: the SI's response to their experience. I'm sure you'll get one from at least one OEM (wasn't it Maingear's CEO that commented?), but you could get a good idea just how truly effective they are at addressing their issues and improving upon them, at least intentionally. I'm not a fan of Origin, but I do get their business model, and saying they don't need a shipping crate missed the point of that model. If you really think that, you must think Apple's packaging is absolutely absurd. The box the iPhone comes in was designed very intentionally to be solid, crisp edged, and tight, so it is like opening a fine jewelry box. The slow opening is supposed to provide anticipation and excitement - I'm not joking, they did it on purpose. Everything being wrapped in expensive plastic instead of a cheap clamshell blister pack is very important to getting the 'prestige' experience. Including a shirt and mousepad? That's like Apple putting logo stickers in every box. You paid a lot, and you want to show it off. This brings me to another idea about a comparison of SIs... How about a comparison where the specs are the same, with no concern about price point. It is a lot harder to create an objective price to value scale for the quality of experience you get, like you can for performance numbers and fixed price. It would be interesting to see if benchmarks would actually come out the same, or if the SI's config or bloatware could ruin what should be a dead heat. Would having a super elite feeling experience justify the cost differences? That's what I'm sure Origin banks on, and might actually be what Maingear or Cyberpower deliver on. I don't know if Canada has something like the Federal Trade Commission in the US, I would expect they do, but they might want to know about a clearly documented case of declining a product and then being billed for it anyway. Even worse when they apparently added both products which aren't supposed to be compatible to be carried on the same product.

Came across this post on imgur: https://imgur.com/gallery/qYV2a1F And wondered which one of you might've made it.

I don't agree in the sense that it wouldn't be impossible to create a fanless and waterless cooling solution, just very much harder. With a heat pipe or vapor chamber setup, you could create one massive enough to transfer away heat to a very large sink with a lot of surface area for dissipation. In fact, I'd love to see Linus attempt exactly that - make a completely fanless and waterless PC using normal components, not laptop or ITX embedded stuff.

The cameras themselves represent a target for theft. Even if you have footage, there isn't a guarantee the perp will be found. Linus' installation is not representative of an ideal deployment, for sure. At the end of the video he basically says as much, but many will not be paying that much attention by then. The cameras should be out of reach of someone standing on the ground, have the wires completely concealed (because the design allows for it easily), and be in far less obvious locations, especially for the highest quality, and thus most expensive cameras.

I think Linus should definitely step back a bit from the work, especially because he does have personalities that can hold up the presentations on the channel. Also, there have been so many videos every single day that I can't really keep up anyway. 'Only' 3 videos a week from all of the LMG channels would be plenty for me, if not maybe less. I'd feel less rushed to watch them, and feel better that Linus and even his staff are not being overworked to deliver content for us. Maybe now he could hire Madison?

Not exactly clear on what you're trying to say. Does your IP camera have both WiFi and ethernet connection options? Are you trying to view the cam remotely, only locally, or record locally, to the cloud, or both?

The list appears to be for game releases, so this probably has nothing to do with hardware. Note that the release dates are all 12/31/2019, so that's already in the past. Based on what I'm seeing as inventory changes in hardware and game title media flow, the DS (2DS/3DS) is a dead platform. I expect the possibility of an even smaller Switch variant than the current Switch Lite, which will still use the same games as the rest of the Switch hardware, giving Nintendo a single platform ecosystem, simplifying game development and distribution. I think all of the game console makers are going to end up only producing one platform at a time, instead of overlapping two, as has been the case since the PS2 and Xbox 360 came out.

Not being a gamer really, and more of a tinkerer, my first modern (32 bit, connected) computer was 'custom built' by me, out of half used components. My family had prebuilt systems I used. After building one, I upgraded the RAM in the family PC, and built a new system for my mother from all new components, albeit very basic, because that's all she needed. I also picked up the hobby of scavenging old systems people were giving away and disposing of, so I got my hands into prebuilt and customs alike. As a result, I'm not afraid of prebuilts or custom building. This all started 20+ years ago though, and in that time desktops stopped being the standard for the computer most people use, especially at home. So, the last 4 computers I've bought for myself were prebuilt, and the last 2 of those laptops. For most people, the last computer they bought and use most is the phone in their pocket or hand. All of that said, I'm itching to build a new system from components again. Been too long, and it is too fun.

I sold and still sell cell phones as part of my work, and I can tell you unequivocally that the deployment of '5G' is for no other reason than marketing. When '4G' was being launched, the term was used pretty loosely, including for HSPA+ (3G GSM on steroids) and WiMAX (WiFi on steroids). It is all just a marketing ploy to 'build excitement' and try to get people to switch carriers, and for carriers to try to stand out in consumer awareness. All the carriers want is to be able to claim to be 'first' in a given technology or feature, and then to have the 'best'. It doesn't matter if it is really of no use to you, as long as they can make you feel like you're getting something from them that nobody else can offer. We needed proper 4G when it was being launched, because we'd already been punishing the old 3G network with usage in place that could easily overload the infrastructure available. Currently, the 4G network technology has plenty of room for the demand, if we just got the deployment of infrastructure up to the technology's full potential. The only reason carriers are migrating their focus to 5G is that marketing angle, and the fact that the 4G networks are 'good enough' to carry the base load we have now, and act as a solid fallback for the gaps in 5G deployment. If carriers were to 'saturate' the capability of 4G before launching any 5G, it'd probably be 2 more years before we saw any real deployment beyond a very select few test markets. T-Mobile's recent claim of 'nationwide 5G' is funny to me, because the map showed that they're finally achieving coverage in the 'dust bowl states', a result of the consolation prize for the failed AT&T buyout. If T-Mobile were really serious about being competitive and providing coverage, they would've done much more to deploy and advertise their expansion in geographic coverage. The fact that there are still holes where you get NO coverage from carriers, and I'm talking about areas larger than a few widely scattered football fields, shows why providers of 'mobile' devices are not all that concerned with actual mobility. I'm fine with the idea of a carrier that can't yet offer the 1-2Gbps 5G in a more populated area, if they make it possible to get 100Mbps in those populated areas while offering complete coverage everywhere else, even if it only offered as little as 6Mbps speeds. That doesn't make for exciting marketing, though.

LMG needs to change the title of the Intel video to "tl;dr: Watch the other video." This video deserves more views, and basically sums up what is in both videos well enough, and is shorter. I feel sorry for the Intel video's sponsor.

I'm gonna be the silly guy and point out that the only part that seems to be the constant here is the display. I haven't seen mention of trying a different display. Does the display show it's own menu when you hit the menu button? does it show a signal error when you boot the systems in question?

She's a graphic designer, and just because they have one, doesn't mean they can't use two. My lady is a graphic artist, and I actually showed her the job listing back when they posted it, but we're not keen to move to Canada at this point. Based on how it is at her work where she is the ONLY fully qualified graphic artist (she's got a degree and tons of experience), it is a royal PITA when she wants to take a day or two off, let alone a week long vacation. Madison is a gamer too, so she's got another thing that fits right in. She's articulate enough, funny, and comfortable in front of the camera. She's also younger than most of the staff, and a bit more in touch with that demographic. Lots of good reasons to hire her, and the only obstruction I can see is that as a contest winner, there might be some embargo for a given period of time. If there isn't - then do it.

So, is that an AT keyboard connector? I don't see a serial port, and I'm not sure what that silver riser is for, but I'm going to guess USB 1.0. I see you heavily populated the EDO SIMM slots, and you've got a single SDRAM DIMM slot. 4 ISA vs 3 PCI slots kind of shows how 'transitional' this board was. Oh, and I like the external cache module.