All Things Tech

I also keep my passwords in a WORD document. It comes in useful.

Does anyone know about AMD Ryzen 5 versus Intel core i5? I'm gonna buy a new student laptop. The school recommends core i5 but more laptops (preferably 13-14 inch lightweight) wth AMD Ryzen 5 processor are on a lower price range. I google search and it's a good recommendation for student use at par with core i5. Anyone with personal experience or expert knowledge? IT people, what do you say? 

Why AMD Ryzen (even 7) compared with core i5 has a lower price range? The laptop is for my tween's school use.

The school recommends core i5. It'll be easy if they say, at least core i5. DH told me not to complicate and buy whatever the school recommends. Sure, but I've just discovered this different processor with the same or higher capability in some areas. Having said that, I'll stick with core i5. Now my next question, is MSI brand good? First time I've come across this brand.

The spec of a computer is more useful to know in relation to the software that you will be using with it but one thing to allow for is your predicted lifetime of use. For instance, with my flight simulator my newer laptop was well in spec for the previous version of the simulator but is now lower down the accepted spec range. When the next version comes out I suspect it will be on the minimum, or below. That is not likely to be for five years though so the laptop will be near the end of it's life then.

Your needs will be far less but, as an example, I bought a cheap laptop which had low memory a few years ago. The memory was so low that it was extremly difficult to update Windows and finally impossible. I just put on Linux and it is now still well useable but that's not something most people would want to do.

The point I am making is perhaps not to get a minimum spec but make some allowance for the future. I am not sure about Branding though although my preference is to buy Known makes.

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I just recently read another story about a farmer taking pics of snowflakes.  He discovered that no two are alike.

www.cnn.com/interactive/2022/12/weather/wilson-snowflake-bentley-cnnphotos/

I have always been told that. Not that I have ever tried to prove it.   

Rebecca Jo One day, I'm going to tinker ( a wishful thinking!) with my old laptop with the 128Mb RAM capacity only. It's my first laptop which I bought from my savings more than a score ago, equivalent of $1500 at the present time. It still works by using the Windows XP. Internet doesn't work due to its ethernet connection (I believe) isn't compatible with the existing modern modem.

I had a commodore 64. I also had a disc drive for it. If I still had it to sell, I could retire.

Presuming of course that £175 was sufficient to retire with. . I sold it for about £35 which back then, probably was about £175 in real terms lol