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I have very little experience with Aspire products and I haven't paid a lot of attention to them. But since using BB mods, Atlantis coils are quite popular with the A-tanks. And there are dozens of different Atlantis coils and compatibles out there. And like Crown coils, they last over 100ml of juice through them and can usually get 8000 or more puffs out of each coil. But Atlantis coils are usually pricey.

Aspire Atlantis / Triton Temperature Sensing Nickel Coils (5 Pk) $2.99

I have no problems using Ni200 coils. I have no idea if these are any good or not. But that is only 60¢ a coil. So I'm going in.
 
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I renewed my driver's licence this morning. It required an eye test and new photo so I couldn't do it online. I was going to pass on the Real ID but took the necessary documents and got it anyway. I don't plan on boarding a plane anytime soon but would sure like to put the wife on one but she will need a passport as where I have in mind it not in the US. My arrival at the DMV was 40 minutes before my appointment and I departed 3 minutes after my appointment time, a total of 43 minutes. Unheard of.
 

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What? I was reading the comments on a HP - Spectre x360 2-in-1 13.3 $1300 laptop. And one of the comments said the RAM is on the motherboard and there isn't any RAM slots. So buy the machine that comes with the RAM that you need. Why would they do that? Is this how they do it with speedy 3200 megahertz RAM systems? Are fast RAM desktops the same way?

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I renewed my driver's licence this morning. It required an eye test and new photo so I couldn't do it online. I was going to pass on the Real ID but took the necessary documents and got it anyway. I don't plan on boarding a plane anytime soon but would sure like to put the wife on one but she will need a passport as where I have in mind it not in the US. My arrival at the DMV was 40 minutes before my appointment and I departed 3 minutes after my appointment time, a total of 43 minutes. Unheard of.
In California...unheard of!
 
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What? I was reading the comments on a HP - Spectre x360 2-in-1 13.3 $1300 laptop. And one of the comments said the RAM is on the motherboard and there isn't any RAM slots. So buy the machine that comes with the RAM that you need. Why would they do that? Is this how they do it with speedy 3200 megahertz RAM systems? Are fast RAM desktops the same way?

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/hp-spe...tural-silver-aluminum-stamping-base/6376412.p

That is becoming more and more common. In order to shrink the design of the laptop, in this case make it thinner, they need to remove the components that would otherwise take up space. Soldering RAM onto a motherboard takes up less space than allowing user replaceable RAM with the allowable sockets. CPU’s are also now soldered on.

Full sized desktops probably not. Smaller form factors, maybe.
 
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That is becoming more and more common. In order to shrink the design of the laptop, in this case make it thinner, they need to remove the components that would otherwise take up space. Soldering RAM onto a motherboard takes up less space than allowing user replaceable RAM with the allowable sockets. CPU’s are also now soldered on.

Full sized desktops probably not. Smaller form factors, maybe.
Right, you pretty much have to do that to make "Ultra book" sized laptops, and there are compelling reasons why people (myself included) appreciate a thinnest, lightest laptop they can find when they travel.

But there's no compelling reason to shrink a desktop computer to the point where this becomes necessary, even a "Small Form Factor" one. Late last year, I replaced a bunch of 6-9 year old desktops with new SFFs. They're all a good bit smaller than the ones they replaced, but they all have four RAM slots and a socketed CPU. Most of the space savings has come from reducing the volume previously allocated for 3.5" HDDs and optical drives. 2.5" SSDs do not need much space and M2 NVME sticks need even less.
 

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Right, you pretty much have to do that to make "Ultra book" sized laptops, and there are compelling reasons why people (myself included) appreciate a thinnest, lightest laptop they can find when they travel.

But there's no compelling reason to shrink a desktop computer to the point where this becomes necessary, even a "Small Form Factor" one. Late last year, I replaced a bunch of 6-9 year old desktops with new SFFs. They're all a good bit smaller than the ones they replaced, but they all have four RAM slots and a socketed CPU. Most of the space savings has come from reducing the volume previously allocated for 3.5" HDDs and optical drives. 2.5" SSDs do not need much space and M2 NVME sticks need even less.

I agree about desk top computers. I left it open due to the fact I am unfamiliar with the small size form factor market. Intel, Asus, Gigabyte, Zotec, just to name a few are all competing against Apple’s Mac Mini which is soldered on RAM and CPU. In order to meet a certain form factor, something has to be compromised – ie: CPU and RAM sockets.
 

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