All rooms having dual cables pulled to each room with CAT7 wiring.
All rooms having dual cables pulled to each room with CAT7 wiring.
Windows 10 dies in 2025 with continual support and newer hardware has been pushing for Windows 11 only drivers.
Depends on the laptop. Open the bottom up and see if your have open m.2 slots if not then if you have a m.2 slot. If you do then go with a replacement ssd or supplementary storage. Or do some research to see what ssd your laptop can take. If you cannot find a ssd or space then I would go for a replacement laptop.
A new Wifi router would not be the best solution. If there’s an available conduit between the houses I would go for fiber install and get 2 ethernet to fiber adapters then get plug that into your current router or look at directional antenna assuming you have line of sight between the houses.
Only if the Iphone charger is a USB-C PD rated charger.
Talk to your school and get a hardware requirements list. Also see about student discounts and such. Talk to professors about what they use. If its a all PC school for engineering your idea of using an Apple product may not fly well. You may also need to factor in Autocad, Solidworks, and whatever programs required for your major. Get the list of the program hardware requirements and go thru sellers and using their filter mode to flag what you need.
Front facing camera - are you asking for a web cam facing the user or needing something to record the professor and the lecture ?
General benchmark for your laptops are going to be your own work. We can suggest review sites such as Notebookcheck.net, ultrabookreviews.com.
Not without better cooling systems. Intel and AMD CPUs for higher performance can crank out performance until they hit the thermal limits.
You can do things such as Eluktronics where they have water cooling to dump the heat out faster then heat can be generated.
Batteries are going to be an inverse relationship with performance. The better the CPU the worst the battery life is going to be.
If you are running just generic stuff then a Mac will meet your needs. If you need to run games / Windows only applications then Windows laptops and desktops will meet your needs.
Battery life is going to be a struggle on Windows based machines unfortunately. But with Windows machines not everything is soldered onto the motherboard as Apple does (RAM, storage, wifi chip).
2in1s and detachables aren’t going to be able stuff the largest possible batteries inside due to trying to be also ultralight.
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Since performance isn’t a big thing, you should be able to getaway with using this thing.
Next step ups in sizes are the 13" laptops and 14" laptops. But get the models with 16-32GB RAM if you can.
The Framework 16 has a 7840HS or 7940HS these are 35W to 54W TDP cpus. The battery is 85Whr.
Doing the math a minimum you get 1.57 to 2.57 hours using the TDP math. But maximum battery life will be a factor of little power the CPUs can run, (approx 5W) and the various items for the laptop systems, display bightness, , fans, M.2 drives, RAM. (approximately 5W to 10W). Crank up the power savings, reduce the brightness, turn off the Wifi / BT, and turn off not necessary programs.
Using that math you can probably get a maximum of 8.5 hours.
I think i shall pass on any WD based SSD for a while until the hardware faulted SSDs work themselves out of the market.
Its an intergrated GPU, resources are shared with your system memory and there’s a limit of how much RAM it can access. You cannot use to play hardcore games.
I have a bunch of 2in1s for my parents and my own needs: MSI 13 Modern; Asus X13 Flow, Asus 2022 X16 Flow, Asus 2023 X16 Flow now.
For the smaller laptops :
Heat issues - small package : going to over heat while gaming, hard to impossible to find a dedicated GPU equipped model.
Battery life - smaller chassis - hard to find large battery capacities
Storage issues - smaller then usual M.2 drives required. The various Lenovo models will need M2.2242 drives which are slightly more common but trying to find a 4TB M.2 2230 drive is impossible or super overpriced.
Soldered RAM issues - The smaller laptops would have soldered RAM on it, if you can live with what issued then good for you but if you were trying to do engineering work forget it or needed to pay much extra for 32GB.