Re:The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be
by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @05:24PM
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A point to add about malware. Make sure your user account your use is a standard one and not an Administrator account. That goes a long way towards cutting down on potential malware.
Re:The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be
by deergomoo on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @06:24PM
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> No longer an issue. I'm honestly not up to date on why not, but nobody ever mentions it anymore.
SSDs, primarily. Depending on who you ask, defragging an SSD ranges between only slightly beneficial, totally pointless, and actively harmful.
Re:The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be
by wtallis on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @08:25PM
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> Depending on who you ask, defragging an SSD ranges between only slightly beneficial, totally pointless, and actively harmful.
Fragmentation will slow down your SSD. For non-server workloads, the SSD is very likely still plenty fast. Running a hard drive defragging program on your SSD will only address one of the two forms of fragmentation that SSDs are subject to, and thus will not help performance much. It will also unnecessarily burn through some of the SSD's limited write endurance, but that is almost never worth worrying about.
> defragmentation
No longer an issue. I'm honestly not up to date on why not, but nobody ever mentions it anymore.
> Windows registry issues
What issues? I haven't gone into the registry for anything in a long time.
> malware, adware
Not an issue as long as you run a modern browser and avoid going to sketchy websites and installing random things from them.
If you haven't used Windows since early XP, it's really worth another try. It's a whole lot better now.