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Thanks in advance for any advice. This school laptop would be for lots of excel and note taking, light gaming as I have a desktop already. I already have an msi laptop and like how the keyboard feels, including the numpad shape and size. This one has a thinner numpad with a weird layout, but IDK I'll get used to it if the other stuff is up to snuff. Specifically I want to know if the stylus works well and if the cooling is good enough to prevent throttling. Are there alternatives I don't know about that check a lot of the following boxes (HP Spectre x360 16"?). Thoughts if you own(ed) one? Looking for a laptop that: -has a touchscreen and stylus with palm rejection (so not a passive stylus) -big screen (15"+, bigger is better) -numpad Nice to haves are: -graphics card -good cooling so the graphics card can work -Laptop < $2000 -Stylus attaches or inserts into laptop while not in use and charges. This seems to check the most boxes. Here are links to some reviews: https://www.techradar.com/reviews/msi-summit-e16-flip-2-in-1-laptop https://www.notebookcheck.net/MSI-Summit-E16-Flip-Evo-A11UCT-028.591288.0.html

The point of statistics and surveys is to generalize and extrapolate. No need to be sarcastic.

Like I said. 2000 is a small number, but I wouldn't be dismissive of the results. It's a sentiment I've shared with them because I hate throwing out a good phone because it's three years old. I especially considered getting the new iPhone SE for my mother because she is not tech savvy like you said. It's smart to want to appeal to many, not just the technically able. Besides, it would be another thing I just don't have to worry about.

SellCell surveyed 2000 (I know that's a small sample, so take this with a grain of salt) US based Android users and about a 3rd of them say they're considering switching to iphone 12. Reasons cited were long term support and privacy mainly, then features. Quotes My thoughts Linus was talking about how android phone makers need to figure out long term support during the last WAN show and it looks like if they don't they could start loosing a lot of customers over time. Hopefully something like this gets their attention. If a company could commit to even match Apple's support commitment, then that could win them a lot of market share from people who would have otherwise switched to iphone. Sources https://www.phonearena.com/news/iphone-12-android-users-survey_id127604

Thanks! that's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. I can see how data retention can get mixed up with overall lifespan. You're right that it doesn't matter. No little heat sink is going to take active use temps to ambient and I don't leave my SSD in the oven when I'm not using it. I was thinking from people's forum posts that you want your SSD in the 80-90 C range and I was like, "no way! Why would they put heat sinks on them from the factory?" My favorite part is that those people recommending NEVER using a heat sink are still wrong, and if I understood the reading correctly, the opposite is true while unpowered (meaning, don't bake your NAND chips or you'll lose data). Anyway. With my heat sink, the drive (which I'm guessing measures from the controller) has stayed in a nice healthy range so I think I'll just leave it alone.

Thanks. I get that it just does a better job dissipating heat than open air. Another reason why people recommending never using a heat sink gave me pause. The idea seemed prolific enough to ask more about it here to see what more experienced people think and more importantly could link me to.

I recently got a new M.2 NVMe SSD and went looking for a heat sink for it because it gets a lot hotter than my old SATA M.2. After installing the heat sink I read on some forums (this one included) that, while the controller likes to be cool, the NAND chips shouldn't be cooled because they wear out faster when cool. This didn't make sense to me as you can get SSDs from the manufacturers with heat sinks on them, an external SSD enclosure I bought came with a thermal pad to dissipate heat to the case and the WD SSD Dashboard has a little temperature status indicator on the GUI that only shows green for good and yellow for too hot. Doing some more googling I was only able to find an Ars Technica article from 2012 about how annealing NAND chips at 800 C (so a lot hotter than any PC) could pretty reliably release stuck electrons, making the cell usable again. My gut says this is the source of a misconception. So, I'm still willing to believe that hot NAND makes SSDs last longer, but I'm going to need some better evidence. I mean a study testing that specific hypothesis or a news article reporting on a study or manufacturers recommendation from their website or something like that. Does anyone have better evidence one way or the other? If it's true I will happily rip off my shiny new heat sink. Stay skeptical PS. First post ever so if I broke all the rules, uh, whoops.