Saturday, December 09, 2023

Things I learned about buying a new PC in 2023

In order to activate a new retail copy of Windows 11 you have to scratch to reveal the entire license key code. If you scratch too aggressively, you scratch the characters off and nullify the license, worth $155. Also, the print size of the code is very small. I'm glad that the salesperson warned me.

Sometimes you see a pre-built system you want online only to find out that they don’t sell it anymore.

Sometimes the store has custom built systems that you would be interested in but you would only discover them in the store, not online.

Sometimes those same custom built systems seem pricey, but on Black Friday weekend, many of the parts onside are on sale.

When you go through your list of previously installed software, you often come across programs you’re just not that interested in anymore.

When you haven’t bought a new PC in 7 years, you don’t realize how much faster the newest systems are.

The more stuff you have in the cloud, the easier it is to transition to a new PC.


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