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Course they can. They're not even on sub 10nm dies yet. Moore's Law is not quite dead just yet and AMD are on, I believe, 7nm already.

I'd agree with that. Although if you have Enterprise or Education versions, MS now differ the support life based on when you installed it: September versions give 30 months of support and March 18 months. They've just played around with their servicing branches and I was hoping they'd...

Or for the less technical peeps, you can follow my stock advice and make sure that the Windows installer USB stick has the network and possibly chipset drivers installers copied across. Experience can be a bitter mistress. :)

That's the thing though - it may not be stable. There's a difference between a soak / burn-in test and running day-to-day. For one thing, I'd hazard there are loads of ghost hardware devices due to the way it's imaged. One of the things I noticed when I was testing autopilot and I ran the...

You have a pair of video cards in your laptop. One, the inbuilt or onboard GPU is designed to be low power. It'll run day-to-day tasks like Office or even watching a video with very little effort and you'd expect a decent amount of time from your battery under those circumstances. You also have...

If you have a Windows 7 or 8 license you can activate 10 using that (I proved this just a few weeks ago and commented here). When you install Windows 10, pop in the 7 or 8 key and it'll activate (providing that that key was never previously used to activate Windows 10 anywhere else).

Remember it will unlink it from your other machine

It will ship with an unactivated Windows 10 that PCS use for testing. Whatever you do, do not activate that copy - it will not be right for your laptop (missing drivers etc). Download the official ISO from Microsoft and install it. Allow Windows to pull in any drivers it needs (one caveat to...

I have banked with Natwest for years and years and although the account is not really used anymore, I tend to keep it around as a bit of a savings account combined with they occasionally offer decent things. I just logged in today and got a message directing me to get a free Malwarebytes full...

I worked for MS for a short while in Belgium. The sheer volume of genuinely useful "internal use only" tools that they have is beyond comprehension and more often than not they don't see light of day purely because their legal department put blockers on them. But even a significant number of...

I found something out fairly recently about Windows 10* in that netsh has a packet capture facility built into it. This is a decent write-up about it: https://www.sonicwall.com/support/knowledge-base/how-can-i-perform-a-packet-capture-in-windows-with-built-in-utility/170905204545360/ *I say...

Hahaha - double-edged sword. On the one hand, you have the ability to chop and change. On the other, you have the ability to chop and change, causing you to spend more (potentially). :)

My DII was. to be fair, "pimped out" as well. 32GB RAM. 2x512GB mSATA SSD's in RAID0, 1 x 1TB SATA SSD and an excellent (although I hated it in practice - more Windows/MS's fault in how it was handled than anything) 4K display. It had the 980M GPU which was still ok for even modern titles if you...

Generally I give my old kit away. My almost 5-year old Defiance II though, I sold on the online tat bazaar and got a decent sum for it. I was very pleased and not a little surprised.

20 VM's @ 25GB each is 500GB so that is 500GB for your host and any applications - probably fine and dandy :) With 128GB RAM you could assign 6GB per VM and still have 8GB for the host which should be fine.

I like VMware Workstation but bear in mind it's a type-2 hypervisor whereas Hyper-V (whether installed as the standalone product or via a role in "full fat" Windows) is a type-1 hypervisor. That said, VMware has some distinct advantages - it can pass through a much wider range of hardware such...

I remember watching one particular episode of the original series where they were going down to a super-cold planet, so they had to wear "thermal clothing". Even at my tender age I could see it was bubble wrap painted red and had huge gaps around the neck. Not sure it's something I'd have put...

To echo others, I'd suggest putting in an SSD first. I've had friends and family with old kit do this and the difference is quite astounding. And the beauty is, if you were to change the machine later, if you get one that has a SATA interface as well as an m2 (the newer, faster interface for...

Will a 1TB SSD be big enough? At 4GB RAM per VM you have the potential to run 31 VM's (leaving 4GB for the host). With Windows 10 alone needing a minimum of 20GB space that isn't a lot of overhead. You could look at combining the SSD and HDD using tiered storage in Windows (10 has it as well)...

That is excellent news and thank you for taking it up with them.