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Threw me at IEC. I said I was ignorant. Well implied it maybe. Thanks for the translation. I get it. Rudimentary. 😉 8-)

Umm...okay. Problem is I do not understand electron speak. Didn't understand a word of what you guys said. lol I know I had the amp and the rear outlet worked pretty gooder.

Difference between mains voltage viz: USA v. UK?

Yes it was. Not really a "practice amp" at 130 watts but it was my only amp at the time. That was one that got away. Sold it with my 20th Anny Les Paul Custom Black Beauty. Oh the folly of youth.

My old Musicman 212 HD had one. Great amp for other reasons but that was indeed handy.

Someone mentioned SUSE. (Rob maybe?) I've never heard of it. Red Hat and Ubuntu are the only versions I've ever heard of and I've never used either. I am going to put together a NAS basically in a spare i5 box I have kicking around. I actually have an i7 as well that I could use. This will be...

Okay then. I may try again at some point but I just installed Win7 on the old box and my firewire interface still works so yay!

I tried that back in March. The helpful Indian tech rep said XP was no longer supported and could not be activated and that was that. No joy.

I tried that and couldn't get it activated. How did you get around that?

Thanks for the input guys. I went with the Lenovo Thinkpad e16. Ultra 5 cpu, 32 gig RAM, 512 SSD. Should do what I want. $1100 after coupons and such, free shipping.

Ha haa. Yeah not an HP fan. Anyway, I have desktop/towers coming out my ass. 2 here and a spare server at work - all i5 minimum. Plenty robust for what I need and none of them will go online so Win10 will be good. This new laptop will be my magic carpet to the future and until I retire for good...

Is there ever going to be a Win12? I have actually heard it will essentially be 11a. I had a bad experience with some HP products back in the day and I do not like their business model - give away the printers and rape em on the ink cartridges. Yeah it works... Yeah end of service for Win10 is...

Agreed. I am exploring alternatives for my future. I have 4 computers at my house that get some use. The one I'm working now is the workhorse but needs hardware upgrading for the switch to Win11. Not gonna happen. The others are for other things. This or one will be a backup/server with the...

Yeah thanks but no. I need a physical keyboard and a larger screen. I also don't like touch screen. I get grimy mitts sometimes.

Are business class more robust physically or component-wise? Any other differences?

Do you have any concerns going online with it after Win10 support ends?

Seems as though the desktop days are waning. I have a decent box still running Win10. It will not handle Win11 so its days are definitely numbered. I don't game and if were to get into it I would have a dedicated box. I have an older recording box that I am going to stick with for now but having...

Nice!

Well now... Good tune. Got an Iggy thing going with the vox.

Not that surprising. Fewer and fewer kids bother with "real" computers these days. The phone rules!