After 30 years of computers I'm finding them scary again

[Midnightwalk]

5. Yeah computers are a pain

I get my techie kicks at work, so I treat my home pcs as necessary tools that just need to be good enough. I splurge on 16gb because upgrades are cheap but scoff at 32gb.

SSDs are nicer than spinners imo. Much faster, less heat and less energy so battery lasts longer. Not sure if that holds with intensive writing, but if you wrote that much you might wear them out anyway.

Someone else mentioned that spinners often give you more warning about an impending failure. That’s true, but head crashes are no fun either. Beyond wear life, SSDs have massive amounts of code that sometimes has bugs.

I actually prefer not having built in dvds. USB drives work fine for me when I need one. I also have a backup drive for each active pc

Just giving some opinions/comment on how laptops are configured these days.