It's best not to update firmware/bios unless you are having a very specific problem. I just learned that recently the hard way. Everything has vulnerabilities and you should be backing up your data anyways. These security vulnerabilities are usually blown way out of proportion.

Also, don't touch Beta Bioses with a 10-foot pole. Avoid them like the plague.

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This is an excellent piece of software. I like it when developers keep things simple yet functional. This should come pre-installed in Linux distros by default if you ask me.

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I really miss having physical buttons with the trackpad on laptops. The touch-only pads just annoy me. I always end up using an external USB Mouse. I only want the touchpad to move the mouse. I don't need any fancy gestures.

My favorite was the green Eraserhead mouse on the early Toshiba Laptops, it was similiar to the trackpoint on the Thinkpads, and had two physical buttons for Left-Right Click.

Other than that this Laptop looks Beautiful. If it came with a Ryzen 5 4500u or Ryzen 7 4700u I'd probably buy it.
I wonder if the Speakers and Camera are any good.

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Here's to hoping we see a powerful Mali GPU in the next Raspberry PI 5. Probably won't happen, but it would be pretty cool.

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I don't like Snaps anyway. I like flatpaks better, but to be honest I could care less about either of them. I rarely even use them.

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Quoting: legluondunet

Quoting: DragunovI was just a little disappointed with the Raspberry Pi 4 missing USB Boot support and the USB-C power supply issue.
I won't be buying another RPI until USB Boot is working from the factory.

Raspberry Foundation provides for some days a beta firmware for Pi 4 that enables RPi4 to boot directly from an USB drive:
https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/boot-raspberry-pi-4-usb [External Link]

When I say from the factory, I mean a Raspberry Pi with Firmware from the Factory that allows USB boot. On the Raspberry PI 3 B+ it just worked out of the box, without messing with the firmware.

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I hope they make a Raspberry Pi 4 B+ with a 1.8ghz+ clock speed, 8gb Ram, USB Boot from the Factory, and get Hardware Acceleration 100% working. Then it will be a really great desktop PC.

I've bought several of these RPI's, my last one being a Raspberry Pi 3 B+.

I was just a little disappointed with the Raspberry Pi 4 missing USB Boot support and the USB-C power supply issue.
I won't be buying another RPI until USB Boot is working from the factory.

Its really close to being a nice Desktop PC, just a few more things they need to work on.

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I've been playing a lot of Yugioh Duel Links via Proton on Steam. It has cross-platform multiplayer and me and my nephew are having a lot of fun dueling each other.

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This is why I like MSI, AMD was late to the game on releasing the B550 series, so MSI released a line of boards called the Max series. The B450 Max series has a larger ROM chip installed, and they claim it will support any AM4 CPU including zen3 with a full featured Click-Bios. Not a slimmed down version.

I bought my B450 board before the max series was released, but I don't plan on upgrading any time soon.
I simply didn't want to pay the prices they were asking for the x570 boards.

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Quoting: fagnerlnHow good is this feature with old hybrid AMD notebook? It's an A6 with some HD6000, I don't remember well

The A6 series laptops did not have a discrete graphics card, those were the APU's integrated graphics.

I have an old Dell Inspirion with an A6-6310 APU that I've been using since 2014. Its starting to show its age, but I don't game on it.

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