I did try the google thing - there are a number of sites with low prices and seemingly good ratings - but checking into them for legitimacy is time consuming. For instance, both those top online stores (software plaza and Tek-Micro) have several complaints about the keys not getting delivered or not actually working. I threw it up to you guys to see if any of you had a reputable channel I purchase through.

Thanks for all the replies though guys. I appreciate the advice.

@Dashrender said:

Sadly I'm guessing this process will be a requirement. Assuming all other imaging rights remain unchanged (i.e. you purchase one VL Windows Pro license granting you a KMS key and VL media, you can deploy images using that KMS key and VL media), you'll need to upgrade the OEM license through the above process to be legal - otherwise, while I'm sure you could just deploy Windows 10 Pro based VL images after you've updated your KMS key on your KMS server, you probably won't be legal, because the OEM license hasn't been upgraded.

I would think that this is likely right based on how they lock the free upgrade key into the hardware ID that it generates.

As a consultant, when I am at a client site, I generally work through without eating unless it is a site I visit on a regualr basis. Then it just depends. If I am travelling, I will go out and get something. If I am local, I generally will bring something and eat it in the break/lunch room.

Well you definitely use your phone more than I do.. Selfies - yeah just kill me. I've taken I think 10 in my life.

Sure the processor is faster, but if you can't tell any difference in app performance who cares? and it's probably just eating your battery faster.

Clearly the camera is better with more options, assuming those things are important to you. I didn't use to care about it.. but after having the crappy camera in the 635, yeah, I care at least a little.. and the 640XL is much better than the 635.

Screen size is a personal thing, not really advantageous or not.

How long does your battery last?

I'm pretty sure my 640XL is the LTE, internet is pretty damned fast on it - to the point that I almost never join an open hotspot because they are WAY slower than my data plan.

@Dashrender said:

@IT-ADMIN said:

i hope so, but i think the only number you can get is US or canadian phone number, and you can only call US or Canadian phone nubers

I am not surprised for the FREE trial.

Calling elsewhere would cost a fortune to the provider. Easily tens or hundreds of thousdands of dollars even for a since line.

OK so this has been bugging me for some time, and its how Xen manages orphaned vDisks.

Specifically why does it create and leave these 0 GB disks on the system with no association to a VM?
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@scottalanmiller said:

@shybrsky said:

mm..how to put last comment to our reply ??

Go to the post you want to respond to and click the "quote" button.

thanks..

@Dashrender said:

What is a desktop pool? or Horizon View?

VMWare's VDI infrastructure.

Makes sense. I'm not saying that it is a good choice, but seems worthy of inclusion in an evaluation.

@dafyre said:

I check that link you sent... is the Enterprise Postgresql free? I've never messed around with pgsql... looks like I need to pick it up!

I believe that it is. It's definitely much cheaper than Oracle with support.

@Dashrender said:

As for the sending of data - yeah this is pretty bad - though I see tempering of this by the fact that this software would be installed directly on the machine that a consumer would get anyway, and it would be buried in the EULA that the information would be sent to Lenovo, just like it is for Dell and HP, etc - All of them do that! and have for years.

All of them had means to stop it before, though.

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller and @Minion-Queen
Did you guys start this out on a fresh install situation, or to preexisting computers?

For example, thoughts on best way to deploy this to 100 workstations, then remove all of the apps currently not installed through Chocolatey?

Preexisting for about 20 machines and then the rest were fresh installs

Good night.

@nadnerB said:

Have a second account that you use for subscriptions/potential spam. 😉

That is way more effective than these kinds of tools.

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1122819-perform-ssd-over-provisioning-optimization-on-the-array-good-or-bad

The type of data being collected here is not the kind of data that I would have a lot of concern about. They will have some small knowledge of your infrastructure but very small and they don't have data about you. Because of the way that they collect the data there would be very little opportunity for them to use it in a bad way. Server capacity data of customers that they did not select is not highly useful in any major way.

Probably my most frivolous purchase in years.

Backplate for the GTX. Seems to add a certain je ne sais quoi.

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Another reference:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3242522

Traveling here in the states I just don't need that. But over seas and LONG flight trips this would be awesome.

@Dashrender said:

Although I don't believe you are completely out of the woods just because you have a business Agreement (BA) with a provider you use that is housing Personal Health Information (PHI) - in fact I'm pretty sure that I'm suppose to request a result of their own audit to ensure they are doing what they are suppose to be doing.. only after collecting that yearly (though how I'm suppose to know it's valid is beyond me) would I be close to be indemnified.

That's possible, back when I was doing HIPAA all the time that was not the case but it does get updated regularly.

Knowing that it is valid is likely none of your concern. You can't know that audits are valid more or less by definition. You'd need the auditor to be audited and that auditor audited and so on and so forth.