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 If you're shopping for a laptop and have $2000 or more, forget this entry.

($2999.99 plus tax and shipping)

You should forget it anyway, because it's a blog of my thoughts, not a buying guide.

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Why do people insist upon 32 gigs in a PC but will settle for 8 or twelve in a laptop?

"12 " is a strange amount, until I remember they solder 4 (or 8) gigs to the motherboard,
and populate DIMM-slots for the rest.
Intel is a way more popular choice apparently, uhm, hmm.
On a low-end-priced laptop I'd think AMD would be a better choice.

Why is 500 gigs good enough??

It IS good enough, but everyone seems to want 1TB or more.

They forget about things like video.... ... ..

And that horrible looking keyboard with that Humungous Track-pad (maybe they figure you never type, just browse).

Why do laptops always think you want to touch the screen?
An unnecessary expense!!

(Why is my internet freezing up tons, lately? "We're sorry, that page is unavailable," bullShit
Apparently, my ISP flakes out a lot, and I never bothered to check why I was on DHCP and not some encrypted DNS

Speaking of routers, what do you think hackers do when they're not mining? 
Or maybe they do this because they're mining...

Or maybe it's all a publicity stunt (the company at https://www.fortinet.com/blog/threat-research/d-link-routers-found-vulnerable-rce gets awful specific)

Let's say you'd never figure out WTF they're saying, *someone* knows and/or has the educational resources to find out. And an auto program that tests for vulnerabilites.