Comment Re:Fascinating... (Score 1) 37
Back in my day, it was popular with boys about 9 and up. But it was a bit of a niche game - it had its die-hard fans, and a whole lot of people who never played it.
Back in my day, it was popular with boys about 9 and up. But it was a bit of a niche game - it had its die-hard fans, and a whole lot of people who never played it.
Isn't "Mexico" from a native Mesoamerican word, and not from a Hispanic language at all?
It's normal that any OS will have close to 0 free memory! This is the expected behavior..
Describe "0 free memory". When I say it is 100%, I am literally looking at Outlook, Windows services, and Excel taking almost 16GB by themselves. This is not cached memory model of the Linux and MacOS where free RAM is reserved for caching. At 16GB, the "cached memory" on my Windows machine is disk swap as I can see the disk activity.
See my other post just above.
I am not searching through this forum just because you can't be bothered to retype or paste a link. Also I have to read your mind to determine which of your posts apply? That's a no.
There are lots of things that could be removed from Windows that are unnecessary; however, MS makes it more difficult with each new update and patch. Removing them for the performance is such a hassle that few do it. For example, I don’t have an Xbox but MS deems it that I must have Xbox Gaming installed with each major update. It used to be that you could uninstall it. Now you can remove it but it really is not uninstalled as components still exist; for example all the modules that connect to the Xbox gaming servers still are present.
There are all sorts of service running that do not to be. I don’t have a touch screen yet all components for it cannot be removed. My machine is a desktop not a laptop yet airplane mode exists and cannot be removed. I know because one day it was triggered somehow and I was off the Internet until I rebooted and reset everything.
The weak spot on the HP is the dim screen. I thought OLED was intrinsically brighter than that.
For budget laptops, their screens are generally dimmer than more expensive models. OLED itself is generally dimmer than LED though.
The Macbook Neo set that standard. You're apparently allowed to make a cheap laptop in 2026 with a unusable amount of RAM and storage now as long as it has a good display.
Have you looked at DDR5 and SSD prices recently? Cheap and lots of RAM or storage are conflicting conditions right now. Laptop manufacturers are not "allowed" to do this as much as they have no choice at the moment. But you are allowed to buy more RAM and storage in a laptop; do not expect it to be cheap.
Macbook Neo, the machine it is a rival to, also runs very poorly on an 8GB RAM machine
According to whom? The Neo is a terrible machine to run anything memory intensive like 4K video editing full time. But that is not designed primarily to do. It was made for the average consumer like students to handle everyday computing like web surfing. Every review I have read say the 8GB is fine for these tasks.
You have a medium memoruy. I remember how USENET was, prior to the web forums you complain about. Reddit has blocked the possibility of a real discussion forum that works for complicated topics, locking in a short term popularity contest with ever-shifting "hot topics".
No it isn't. It's API stability. Linux changes stuff all the time, and pretty soon your old binaries won't run on new distros (unless, ironically, you're running Windows software with WINE). Apple deprecates APIs all the time and switches CPU every few years. For all its other faults, Windows is still better at keeping your software usable.
What is now proved was once only imagin'd. -- William Blake