On Thu, 2025-08-28 at 08:40 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > Big manufacturers are moving away from generic parts. Connectors have > always been troublesome. Soldered on RAM reduces problems as long as > the initial configuration was adequate for future needs. Manufacturers have > become very good at designing things that fail shortly after the warranty expires. > Many users prefer smaller form factors, and for large manufacturers small form > factors use less material, reduce shipping costs, and are popular with customers. I think few (ordinary) people upgrade parts in their PCs. They put up with mediocre performance (e.g. three minutes to boot, sluggish app startup, various crap-outs), because they've come to expect that with Windows based computers. And because they bought the cheap PC at the store that had a "starting from" price, where the owner expected you'd reject the bottom offer and add some of the improved specs, but the customer does not. They take up offers on "chair and desk included" instead of more RAM or faster CPU. Whereas more RAM would have probably been the best simple and cheap improvement they could have done. I wish shops would stop doing that tactic of selling crapbox PCs, and start their range of models with a basic decent machine. Having said that, I can't believe some of the prices I'm seeing for consumer level computers, now. They're what over-the-top gamers used to spend. Mine's a few years old, now, but I only spent $500 on motherboard, CPU & RAM, and got a more than adequate working machine. I certainly won't be buying a $2600 machine. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
