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Next time my doctor asks for a stool sample this[^] is what he will get.
Technician
1. A person that fixes stuff you can't.
2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
JaxCoder.com
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I'm thinking it's the legs that must've hurt the most...
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Funny that no pics, so I had to use my imagination. Also funny that this is mentioned as an 'instructable' for teachers. 
btw, are you still traveling or back in jax? (haven't seen any pics in the 'where are you' forum.)
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Just got back from a 6 week trip out west, am still going through photos and posting to my site on the Gallery page.
In 2 weeks headed to Peru for a week then pretty much settled until February.
Technician
1. A person that fixes stuff you can't.
2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
JaxCoder.com
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kmoorevs wrote: Funny that no pics, so I had to use my imagination
Yet another site that no longer works with IE for no good reason. I knew something was missing, so I retried with Chrome...and sure enough, the images load.
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Maybe the site was congested 
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RickZeeland wrote: Maybe the site was congested constipated
FTFY
Technician
1. A person that fixes stuff you can't.
2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
JaxCoder.com
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I did not get pics with IE. I had to open in Edge to see pics.
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"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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I built a Shuttle system some years ago and was more than happy with it. However, for not much more than that price you could probably get a Dell laptop (She and I each have one) that comes complete. And runs Windows 10 with no problems.
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I've also used Dell laptops for over 15 years now and am happy with how my current one runs Windows 10.
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I use one as a local Team Foundation Server. In the last two years, it's been rock-solid. That means no reboots (other than required by Windows updates), and no data loss.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I have two Intel NUCs, i5-based, 5th gen and 6th gen (both older than the ones you're looking at).
With RAM maxed out and a cheap SSD, they're plenty fast. I use the newer (32GB RAM/2TB SSD) to host a crapload of Linux VMs under Hyper-V, and the older one (16GB RAM/512MB SSD) is used to RDP into other machines elsewhere. That one is sitting on my desk, and is running 3 monitors, including a 4K 40" TV. The video chipset is fast enough to play a 1080p video full-screen side-by-side on each monitor independently, although it struggles with an actual 4K video (which is not an impediment for me).
Apart from the aforementioned 4K video playback, it's managed to keep up with every task I've ever tried to throw at it--although I'm no gamer either. To be fair, all "big" games nowadays require a dedicated video card, and Intel's video hardware has always been at the bottom of the list. But that doesn't matter to a non-gamer.
Bonus: I literally cannot hear it, unless the fan is spinning pretty fast - which it started doing a lot earlier this year until I blew the dust out - and I haven't heard it since. It's not the workload that got it to run hot, it was the dust accumulation.
Bottom line - I like 'em a lot.
[Edit]
Yes, both are running Win10. Intel has good drivers for them.
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dell and lenovo also have tiny PCs you could compare
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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For her existing Asus, if there are issues, update the bios. Format the drive fresh install windows, then update the chipset drivers, then do all the other updates, and software installs. That used to be a ritual for any new laptop that came from Dell / Asus / Acer or whoever, just to clear out the sh!te and start fresh and get them running smoothly.
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roger that
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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DaveAuld wrote: For her existing Asus, if there are issues, update the bios
I second this recommendation -- in the last year I've had several PC problems that were solved by updating the BIOS.
Pre-installed PCs (laptop and desktop) come with a scary amount of garbage installed, doesn't matter who the vendor is. Re-installing Windows from scratch cures many evils.
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From my recent experience with my wife's 6 y/o all-in-one:
It came with Win7 home, and had upgraded to Win10. It's always been dog slow and I've hated working with it. Several months ago it started failing to boot/restart with a bsod hardware issue.  After fighting with it for a few days, I decided it was time for either a new machine, or a clean install of Win10. Of course, she wanted the easiest (more expensive) option of a new all-in-one. I decided to first try a new SSD, another stick of RAM, and clean windows install. If it didn't work, I could use those parts later on anyway.
It was an amazing success! Even with just an i3, it is blazingly fast.  It was also half the price of a new machine. If I'm lucky, it should last another 6 years.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Second this, SSD+RAM+Fresh Win10 install is like the fountain of youth for laptops.
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You have nothing to loose, so try putting Linux on it. Also, max out the ram and put a ssd in it. You can do all the normal stuff (web, mail, etc), and it won't bog you down with corrupted updates.
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yeah, not sure I'm going to get her to Linux. There are a couple of applications she uses for her business that are Windows only, although the idea is a good one.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Thanks for the feedback. I think we're due for a full wipe. I refuse to use Windows 10 Home because of it's stupid restrictions and that's what is on it. Add in the bloatware, etc. It actually is relatively well configured with a nice screen, good i% processor and decent memory. But as the updates rolled out of Redmond, it just got worse and worse. So, I bought her an SSD and attempted multiple times to clone the existing drive. The SSD just won't boot. No matter how much support I got from the s/w company providing the clone code (and I tried multiple), there is something Asus has done to the boot process.
I've not updated the BIOS, etc, I'll take another crack at it maybe over the Thanksgiving break.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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My wife has an Asus laptop that got very slow after the latest Windows 10 updates. I decided to clone the HDD to SSD but I had not much time to spend on it, so I tried a free utility (Easeus Todo Backup Free), plugged the SSD to a USB port with a SATA adapter and let it go with the default settings. I saw that the HDD had special Asus partitions so I was expecting trouble, but to my surprise, after swapping the internal HDD with the SSD it booted perfectly. Not sure that an emergency recovery could still work with the cloned partitions, but Windows 10 is working perfectly and much faster.
You should give it a try (unless this utility is one of those that you already tried!)
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Easus and I went round and round. Something about "no, it doesn't work" they could never understand. It has something to do with new device boot conventions. I got tired of the fight. I mean, I would spend 5 hours cloning the disk only to not have the SSD boot.
I got exasperated, and she wanted the laptop back.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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