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Originally Posted by VenezianBlau 87 View Post
Thanks all! Lot's of good advice/links to act on.
I just use three laptops around the house, including one on the garage "workbench" used more often as a bar/gathering spot. I think Steve is right that the specs aren't easily faked. I come up with all sorts of concerns about minutia since retirement.

My needs don't involve computers with liquid cooling! lol you guys
You asked a pretty sophisticated question but turns out you didnt care about the answer?

Its pretty dang easy for a laptop vendor to fake most software reported specs. Root kit can do it too.

Check this out: a hard drive that fakes its capacity:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/walmart-lists-a-30tb-portable-ssd-for-39-it-is-naturally-a-scam/
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