The downside (if you can call it that) is that you won't be able to load the Windows Store until you go into Settings/Time & Language/Language & Region and change the Country or region from World to <wherever you live>
Thanks Spyder - what a conundrum, going AMD would mean quite a change in spec. As a matter of interest, putting virtualization to one side, does Intel/my spec hold any advantages over AMD?
For SQL and db, natively - I generally run all the VMs as test machines or servers, different OSes within a domain infrastructure to test code but the code itself and a lot of the db work is done native.
That sucks about the 13900k. If it's such a bad CPU, it's a shame it's even offered. I'm...
Thanks for posting that link @SpyderTracks, it's a really interesting read. Also a bit of a conundrum - I do work with Oracle VM so that speed difference was quite something, but then I do a lot of MySQL (and other database) work and it seems the opposite effect?
When you say you can't...
Nerviously awaiting delivery of new PC - nervous because I'm hoping it's the nuts and worried it won't be! :) I should have posted in these forums before I bought but take a look below and it'd be great if anyone has any thoughts or comments. Primarily business and development use, a lot of...
I guess the .ini file comment really depends on the app. Depending on what the architecture of the app is, there may well be no .ini files but there could be .config files, there could be registry settings in the user hive, etc, etc. To be honest, .ini files is also a pretty old way to store stuff.