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      03-29-2023, 10:34 PM   #11837
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Dell Optiplex 7000 Micro for Wifey. Her older Optiplex is showing its age and will be relegated to being her shipping PC (scale, printer, Stamps.com, etc).

This new one has an i7, 16GB RAM, a 512GB SSD, and Win10 Pro. And unlike her older one, which had some bizarre download issues, this one is fast as stink. I still wish she'd move to Macs, but her work machine is a PC, so she wants to stay consistent.
My wife’s like that too. She’s always been Windows, I’ve always been Mac.
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      03-31-2023, 03:29 PM   #11838
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I gotta say that I picked this one off the shelf for two reasons, neither of them good. The store clerk said it was fantastic and since taste is a very personal thing that's poor reason #1. I was intrigued by the name Gunpowder and Rose which is a terrible way to choose something like a new rum so that's poor reason #2.
Once I crack the seal and have a taste I'll get back to you with my opinion, FWIW.
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New chair for the Asheville condo. It was supposed to go in the bedroom but it doesn’t quite work there so no we have officially cluttered up the living room.
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      04-03-2023, 09:20 AM   #11841
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Dell Optiplex 7000 Micro for Wifey. Her older Optiplex is showing its age and will be relegated to being her shipping PC (scale, printer, Stamps.com, etc).

This new one has an i7, 16GB RAM, a 512GB SSD, and Win10 Pro. And unlike her older one, which had some bizarre download issues, this one is fast as stink. I still wish she'd move to Macs, but her work machine is a PC, so she wants to stay consistent.
So, for (Easter, Mother's Day, just because) you are buying her 2@32GB RAM chips and throwing away the 16???? Even everyday staffers that write email and MAYBE a Word document here and there get 32GB, even with the 3xxx Optiplex.
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So, for (Easter, Mother's Day, just because) you are buying her 2@32GB RAM chips and throwing away the 16???? Even everyday staffers that write email and MAYBE a Word document here and there get 32GB, even with the 3xxx Optiplex.
The bottle neck with her current 16GB RAM machine is download speed. No idea why that is happening, since internal network speeds are high. But I'm sick of trying to fix it, hence the new machine. And RAM is cheap, so if we need to bump it to 32GB, it'll be easy enough.
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The bottle neck with her current 16GB RAM machine is download speed. No idea why that is happening, since internal network speeds are high. But I'm sick of trying to fix it, hence the new machine. And RAM is cheap, so if we need to bump it to 32GB, it'll be easy enough.
If she were saving data to a 5000 RPM drive, then getting that SSD fixed whatever issue she had. With ethernet cards at 1GB, they aren't the bottleneck.
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New chair for the Asheville condo. It was supposed to go in the bedroom but it doesn’t quite work there so no we have officially cluttered up the living room.
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      04-03-2023, 11:19 AM   #11845
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If she were saving data to a 5000 RPM drive, then getting that SSD fixed whatever issue she had. With ethernet cards at 1GB, they aren't the bottleneck.
You'd think. The slow downloads only happen with internet stuff. Machine to machine transfers are normal 200-300mbs speed (for our network). I've tried wifi and Ethernet, same issue either way. She has a 500GB SSD with a ton of space, so it's not that. I've updated the drivers and done everything else I could think of and read about. Still at 80mbs or less for internet speed when every other device gets 300-400mbs.
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      04-03-2023, 07:36 PM   #11846
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It along with my Omicron Blood Pressure monitor and O2 finger monitor are very handy indeed.
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I opened the new Gunpowder and Rose Rum (still like the name) for a Sunday afternoon sip. As mentioned before, taste is a very personal thing and I would not use the word "fantastic" to describe this rum. The word I will use is "meh". There is just nothing about it that grabs your attention. Now I won't be pouring it down the drain but I also won't be replacing it once the bottle is empty either. That's my two cents on the matter and we all know what two cents is worth these days.
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It was on sale, so I figured, "Why not"?

Not on the track until June though, so I won't be able to test it out until then.

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^ They have food for specific breeds? I didn't know that. Guess that's what you don't know when you have mutts for house-cats from the shelter your whole life. lol
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I buy a lot of "stuff" at harbor freight.. but I'm not crawling under my car that's being held up my their jack stands.
I totally understand that but I only bought them to change out my wheels / tires.
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