Robert Zanatta

The 8400 will be a lot faster.  If you can afford a bit more, you could get the 8700K which will be two to four times faster in terms of processing power.  It would be quite noticeable with an ...

Agreed. Keep it safe and dry.

Good job. And it's great to see a positive thread with a happy outcome.  :-)

Starting prices of $2,399 and $1,799 for the 15 and 13 inch.

You can get 4K at 30Hz via HDMI.  For 60Hz, you'll need displayport to displayport.  If your computer doesn't have a displayport connector and you want its features, then a different graphics card ...

Boot off of the installation thumb drive and go to a command prompt from the advanced recovery options. From the command prompt you can look at the hard drive. You might even be able to repair the ...

You might need installation media specific to Acer. Some laptops come that way (like Dell) and automatically pull the Windows serial number from the BIOS. https://us-store.acer.com/erecovery/rcd Th ...

My wife's laptop isn't as powerful (same RAM and similar CPU) and it runs Windows 10 just fine..

If you only need to get files off of the drive, try backing up the machine to an external drive using a bootable thumb drive made from the backup software.  You could use Macrium free edition.  If ...

And what's wrong with the Noctua NH-L12S?

Noctua NH-L12S is a low profile solution, probably aimed at HTPCs, and is 70mm in height. Performance would be fine unless you plan to overclock, and the noise level are pretty good.

You could always try reading the embedded press release from the manufacturer.

Intel only supports overclocking on some of their CPU models. Their processors also throttle the frequency when temperatures exceed a value that may damage the processor (typically around 100C).

Just because there are more cores doesn't imply additional power consumption that is noticeable.  You can get a quad core hyperthreaded Intel processor that consumes a maximum of 15 watts, or ...

Power usage is the same.  Single core performance is 15% better, and multicore performance is 50% better, with the 8750H.  For an application like Lightroom, only some tasks like import/export ...

This article might help: https://www.pcmag.com/roundup/360470/the-fastest-laptops Get an 8950K processor...  :-)

If it was Windows then a lot more people would have the same problem...

Dell.  Nice specs.  The drive can be easily upgraded to a larger size if necessary.  Big battery is a nice feature if you lug the laptop around. I had a Zenbook and they aren't as robust and are ...

It won't be quick, but should work fine.  The laptop comes with a DVD; in the future you should be able to remove it and replace with a $100 SSD for OS/cache/scratch so as to improve responsiveness.

Are you going to put yourself in your ignore list?