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Be nice to have a 17" laptop with lots of storage bays. Of course, that would not be thin and light, different strokes for different folks.

[rlkrlk]

I run at 100% scaling and pick font sizes and such to taste. On WUXGA screens I used the ancient 6x10 font in emacs and xterm, while on 2160p (my 17"...

[rlkrlk]

All of my personal laptops (dating back to the Dell Inspiron 8000) have had four DIMM slots. I've always bought used workstation-type ones.
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Fortunately my 4 year old P70 is doing fine, because it's hard to find this kind of thing any more with plentiful drive bays. I had to replace my work...

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I'm a year or few away from replacing my ThinkPad P70, but a laptop with this kind of CPU in a mobile workstation config -- 17" UHD or 3840x2400...

[rlkrlk]

Be nice to have a real workstation-type laptop with a 17" screen, H-series CPU, plenty of storage slots and ample USB ports.

[rlkrlk]

Understand, but this is just USB quirk data that needs to be injected once, not code....

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Maybe not, but it's not the mission of the kernel developers to protect proprietary business models....

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Unfortunate that this can't be loaded from userspace; there's no code here, just data.

[rlkrlk]

That XIO error handler is waaaaaay overdue. I remember that headache back around 1986; someone suggested setjmp/longjmp for recovery (I was playing around...

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For those of us into throughput, I'm concerned about memory bandwidth...

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Business users don't always care about the expense....

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Why wouldn't they run Linux? If you're doing analytics on big data sets, you might need tons of RAM with relatively modest CPU, for example....

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That memory in cache _is_ available to use in that case. If some other process needs more memory, and there's not enough unused memory, pages will be...

[rlkrlk]

What specific number(s) are you monitoring in htop? There are a lot of different numbers indicating memory usage; they don't all matter.

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