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On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 06:11:51PM -0600, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote |
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> On 5/27/21 3:05 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> > It was nice to have a newer "hot backup" (XPS8940) to switch over to |
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> > quickly when an older machine started locking up occasionally. Now I |
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> > need a "hot backup" for the newer machine that I ordered last October. |
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> > Dell Inspirons seem to top out at 12 gigs ram, so I'm looking for an XPS |
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> > model in order to get more ram as the bloating of linux continues. All |
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> > current XPS models seem to have 256G or 512G M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State |
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> > drives in the base configuration. Questions... |
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> > |
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> > * do NVMe drives function well under Gentoo (driver issues, etc)? |
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> > |
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> > * how long do they hold up (wear and tear)? |
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> > |
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> > * can I simply disable them if I run into problems? |
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> > |
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> > If someone can suggest an alternate supplier to Dell, that ships to |
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> > greater Toronto, at similar prices, I'd be willing to take a look at |
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> > them. |
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> |
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> Checking out XPS8940 (about 1799.00CAD) it seems to me expensive. They did not mention if the NVME is Gen. 3 or Gen. 4 |
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I don't know what happened between last year and now, but Dell's |
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XPS8940's now all seem to come with NVME (expensive) and fancy-shmancy |
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Nvidia (i.e expensive) video. Also, reading the specs on the website |
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*V-E-R-R-R-R-Y* carefully, I see that the XPS machines come mostly with |
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*ONLY* 256 or 512 gig solid state drives; no SATA drive. On the other |
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hand a $600 CAD (on sale) Inspiron desktop with... |
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* 10th Gen Intel® Core# i5-10400 processor |
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* Intel® UHD Graphics 630 with shared graphics memory |
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* 12GB ram |
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* 1TB 7200RPM 3.5" SATA HDD |
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...looks very attractive. I'm not a gamer so supper speed isn't an |
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issue. I also vaguely remember years ago having to build in binary |
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modules into the kernel for Nvidia video. This meant I couldn't upgrade |
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to the latest kernel until Nvidia came out with the appropriate binary |
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video driver. Is that still a thing? |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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