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I waited for two new MacBook Pros for both my daughter's STEM college semester and for my needs, only told that it would probably come out around the end of 2018 or in early 2019. Apple like to run close to the vest. Then, Apple springs the new MacBooks without any notice. So, we bought two...

Let's put this in perspective here: This is a test of a $3,700 MacBook with just an i7 and a 13 inch monitor. For her college STEM program, my daughter purchased a 6th Generation Lenovo X1, on sale, It has an i7-8650U, 16MB 2133Mhz memory, a 1TB Opal SSD, a 14-inch 500 nit 2650x1440 display...

So, essentially, the performance test is pretty bogus as it doesn't test the actual SSD performance. What we are seeing here is a test of Apple's "copy" function, which really just creates an alias pointer to the same file, which only applies when you are copying files within the same drive...

The worst thing you can do to a computer or laptop: 1) Have it plugged into street power, without any power conditioning or suppression. 2) Have it plugged in without a top quality battery backup that remediates #1. 3) Routinely turning the units off. I've been an IT officer for 30 years, and...

From what I gather from the other Digital Storm products, the use of the i7-8700K will support overclocking. DS offers overclocking for both the CPU and their graphic cards, with their own optional software tool. Also, these systems can be upgraded, unlike the Hades Canyon, which prevents...

I've been waiting over half of a year for this new Hades Canyon to finally appear, camping on the Intel boards and website. There seems to be numerous faults with the Skull Canyon offering, such as excessive noise, high heat and compatibility issues with various hardware. I hope that the Hades...

The next question is, how much degradation will occur when the Nvidia boards are finally are patched for the Spectre and Meltdown exposures, something the AMD boards might not require? http://www.tomshardware.com/news/meltdown-spectre-exploits-intel-amd-arm-nvidia,36219.html

In light of all of the issues with primarily Intel CPUs, I an looking at an AMD Ryzen Threadrippper solution. I would like to go Small Form Factor. Please let me know if this looks like a good candidate. The Best and the Only –ASRock X399M Taichi Small PC enthusiasts and AMD fanboys brace...

Probably not. I would get a fault tester for your wall's electrical outlet to make sure you are getting proper ground, then make sure you have peoper grounding for your mainboard, and your PSU is metal to metal to the chassis. If you have a cheap power strip, dump it. Get a good battery backup.

I have an XP system here that uses CCleaner, Malwarebytes (after a week it goes to a free manual mode), Advanced SystemCare, and the Chinese IOBit Suite (which I'm not keen on from a Nation State security product aspect). The last one burns a lot of CPU at times. I get them from CNET Downloads...