11-24-2025, 05:43 PM
(11-24-2025, 01:46 PM)madscijr Wrote: I'm currently without a computer - Windows blew up and my SSD is unreadable. There was all this stuff in the news about how the Windows 24H2 or whatever update bricks solid state drives, then a bunch of stuff "debunking" it.
i'm sorry that you have to go through that. after reading about that.
junk is being built more often as we speak.
i bought a portable asus computer at best buy near beginning of 2022. right now for about the same price of a bit over 200usd. at office max. could buy one by hewlett-packard i think. with pretty much the same specifications. two-core cpu intel celeron nxxxx series. only 4gb ram. only 64gb "card" internal storage, not true ssd nor nvme. but it does look nice!
to get 8gb ram and 128gb storage. have to pay 150usd more. not sure if the cpu would improve there. forget about independent gpu on such a portable computer.
it looks like the screws have to be loosened. from the bottom shell of the asus computer. to get to the battery. otherwise it might fail to charge. then i might not be able to use the computer. another computer did that to me. when the screen broke of that. i had it fixed. then sold that computer because i already paid double price for issues it had.
the asus "chip" drive. originally had windows10. last year i replaced it with spirallinux "bookworm" with cinnamon desktop, debian clone. its performance is ok but could be better. especially if i knew how to replace an internal disk.
computers like that as they are. aren't really good for jumping linux distributions at all. on the computer i sold. i got rid of windows10 early. wound up changing the linux about five times. manjaro with kde. fedora 38 with mate. early this year before selling it, opensuse "tumbleweed" but the exton edition with lxqt desktop.
also be careful with the usb 3.x disks to use with such computers. because the port is "usb-c" doesn't make it slick enough. disks could get dirtied. then a movie or operating system backup which is megabytes in size. could refuse to operate. it might be only my equipment's fault. but the prices of those pluggable disks aren't changing. while one could just decide to quit. getting 2tb or more of external storage. is just more stuff to lose. when it suddenly blows up. that's just too much money and peace of mind to lose.