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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • For some things, the i7 works a bit more efficient than the i9, the i9 is a beast but that also makes it bulky. And power hungry.

    32 GB RAM is solid, I wouldn’t go for 16.

    And for the graphics thing, well… If it’s photo/video editing and you don’t plan on using an external display as a default, you might want to consider the 3rd option for a screen. DCI-P3 is much broader than sRGB.

    Edit: oh and I don’t know what the upgradability is on this thing but you might wanna go for the 1TB drive just in case.

    And if I can give you a bit of Windows advice: see if you can chop up that disk in two partitions before you start installing stuff. Keep your Windows partition, the part of the disk where you only keep Windows, at around 120GB. This will cause Windows not to create tens of gigabytes of cache files on the disk, freeing up space for more content. And something I always immediately do is turn hibernate off (powercfg.exe /hibernate off) in order not to get a hiberfile.sys the size of your used RAM.


  • 4060 or 7600XT but that’s still very pricey. It really depends on what you call graphic heavy. The latest video games will not run on an Xe. Then again, they’ll not run great on a 4070 either. If you need to do stuff like video editing, especially rendering, will take longer on an Xe but will work. A 4070 will be quicker but you’ll be far better off with a Quadro or whatever they call their professional series now. They do add to the price but you can settle for a lower model. If you’re looking at just stuff like photo editing, an Xe will do fine.





  • Yep they noticed a while ago that they can up the price of the completely ad-free experience, call it super extra premium and create 15 tiers below it, gradually giving you more annoyances and pretending it’s necessary to keep their business afloat. These are multi million dollar profits they’re making, it is in no way necessary. This is just profit maximalisation over the back of ignorant people who will do anything to pay a little less without knowing they’re continuously paying more.