[dennisw]

I just bought a new MacBook Air. My old HP laptop died and I decided I had had enough of Windows and Windows 10. So I made the switch and could not be happier.

I am still a remote controlled zombie of Farmer Bill Gates. In the last year I have bought el Cheapo refurbs from Dell and HP. One is a 15.6" laptop. The other a desktop connected to an IPS LED monitor. In both I installed more memory and an NVME. Now they fly.

But really, what you want in a new Windows computer is one that the sleep function works 99-100% of the time. This is not always the case. BUT if the sleep function works great in your new Windows Ten computer.....Then use sleep and rarely turn it off. THEN an old fashioned 1TB hard drive is tolerable. No SSD or NVME needed. I have a computer with Intel Optane chip installed. This hypes up the conventional spinning hard drive action, so that reads go much faster into the 900 mb/s range. Writes stay pretty much the same. Maybe 10% faster.

I am guessing that the sleep function in Apple laptops runs perfecto 100% of the time

******** The kings of cheapo refurbs are VIP Outlet which is part of Walmart. They have their own website and also are on eBay. Also the official Dell refurbs website. Dell refurbs are also on eBay. Dell loves to move product however they can. You can find different prices for Dell refurbs on their own website versus their Ebay prices.

[glorgau]

But really, what you want in a new Windows computer is one that the sleep function works 99-100% of the time. This is not always the case. BUT if the sleep function works great in your new Windows Ten computer.....Then use sleep and rarely turn it off. THEN an old fashioned 1TB hard drive is tolerable. No SSD or NVME needed. I have a computer with Intel Optane chip installed. This hypes up the conventional spinning hard drive action, so that reads go much faster into the 900 mb/s range. Writes stay pretty much the same. Maybe 10% faster. etc.

Who really should need to know that stuff? I have a degree in computer science, have worked as a software engineer and consultant for decades, and HATE dealing with that trivia. It's just a costly distraction in time and attention from getting on with my life.

Just my two cents on all that computer stuff ;-)