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Re: [OM] Brain surgery easy, convalescence Hell.

Subject: Re: [OM] Brain surgery easy, convalescence Hell.
From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 16:14:00 -0600
Congratulations, Moose.  I gave up on W7 a year ago, but being short on knowledge and approaching senility, I let my son do the hard work in getting me going on a made-to-my-specs iMac.  He is fluent in both Windows and Mac worlds and retired from working as a Systems Analyst for government contractors.  It is, for me, the best move I could have made.  The system is faster by far, and much more reliable, than the Dell systems I have used.  I still have him on speed dial when new questions arise.

I admire your ability to assemble a custom system, hybrid as well, and get it working.  The Apple world still has mysteries for me, but I'm coping nicely.

On 12/31/20 3:33 PM, Moose wrote:
I needed to go Win 10. The free upgrade wouldn't work with the keep application option, no matter how I twisted and turned. Upgrade without apps would leave me with the task of recreating my world, on a 7 year old machine. (are computer years like dog years?)

Sooo . . . I did brain surgery:

Old = ASRock Z77 Pro4 MB, Intel i7-3770K 4-core, 32 MB of memory, 500 GB SSD New =  ASRock Z490 Taichi MB, Intel Core i9-10900K* ten-core, 64 GB memory, 1TB SSD, mondo CPU cooler, as the MB does allow over-clocking.

All went well with the surgery. It still amazes me when I build or rebuild a computer when it starts right up, first time.

Setting it up, though, has been, shall I say unpleasant. A Win 10 install makes all sorts of assumptions that don't fit me. It couldn't ask me what user name I want? Not that hard to change/replace a user name, but to change its default folder name requires going in to the registry! And then leaves weirdness.

No, I don't want to back up everything to the cloud. No, I don't want you to suggest all sorts of things to me from your store. And so on.

Where's the other things on my local net? Can't see 'em. Network settings are stupider than in W7. I manage to screw them up even worse. Time to Reset W10. OMG, it keeps my user name and User folder name! And now sees other things on the network! NordVPN now works OK, whereas it was funky under W7.

Still finding things I need to install, but the big stuff is working. At least I will have left behind lots of stuff I don't need anymore. Give me a few years, and I'll clutter it all up again.

The old machine wasn't slow for everyday stuff, so I don't see much difference in many things. Many things load faster. But machine eaters, like the Topaz AI plug-ins, are obviously improved. First use of Denoise, I thought it hadn't worked, it was so fast. And that's without the graphics board installed yet!

The goal of speeding up my image work is achieved.

B. Surgeon Moose

* Leading edge, not bleeding edge. The "K" version has a GPU I won't need in it, but was only $10 more, and the no GPU version was out of stock.

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Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

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