IANA expert either, but having done a bunch of laptop shopping recently for myself and others, this appears to be the case. You’d be hard-pressed to find a laptop with a mechanical spinning drive, and why would you want to?
My desktop, though, is typical. It has an SSD system drive, and a large capacity mechanical drive for data storage, though even that will be replaced with an SSD as soon as I get around to it. I already have the SSD but for the moment I’m just using it to periodically mirror the HDD in case the HDD decides to fail. After more than 49,000 hours and currently running at 49C, it may not be long!
I’m an expert, or at least I should be since this is what I do for a living. At the very least, by 2920 the laptops we were procuring for our agency came with SSDs and I don’t believe there was even an option to get a traditional drive. There is this article to back that up.
The slowdown in HDD products has already started, with the fourth quarter of 2019 seeing a 9.4% drop in products sold through IT distribution.
Context found that 93.3% of new laptops sold in the quarter had SSDs as their primary storage, a significant increase from the 66.7% at the end of 2017.
So SSDs in laptops were pretty common by the end of 2017, as the majority of sold laptops had them, and by the end of 2019 it was rare for a laptop not to have one. A 2022 laptop without an SSD would be pretty surprising.
Which suggests that @Jack_Batty’s problem is failing or dust-jammed fans and weirdness (possibly including SSD weirdness) caused by heat problems.
Back when I had a laptop that had a fan, it (and the guts downstream of it) needed frequent cleaning. Which entailed taking the back cover off, but no greater disassembly. Just blowing compressed air into the inlet screen only served to wedge more dust deeper among all the components, impeding the airflow from getting much past the plane of the fan blades.
I swear the pipes in my basement are cursed and show their disdain whenever I have travel plans.
I am scheduled to leave for a trip to the Sleepy Hollow, New York area on Thursday morning.
I went to my basement to let the routine bug spray man in the door and discovered a puddle of water with no apparent pipe issues. But the puddle was kind of big so I spent all afternoon calling plumbers and handymen.
Totally destroyed my sense of peace and stability.
Only one responded positively with a visit scheduled tomorrow between 8 AM and noon.
I had noticed a bit of a wet spot in this exact location earlier this year and in fact had both a plumber and a handyman take a look and no one could see anything. It was a mystery.
Today it appears to be at the end of a dripping stage so I believe it must be a drain issue somewhere.
I had replaced almost all of my water pipes 2 years ago following a major break so almost everything is new except the drains. That particular messy episode occurred about a week before a trip to Europe and was quite involved.
I’ve had this laptop sitting atop a cooling tray for about the last year. It seemed to be running pretty hot all the time, so it seemed prudent. I don’t know if maybe that ended up blowing extra dust inside or something. Anything’s possible. Physics is weird.
I’m sorry. The novel I just finished started as a NaNo project and I wrote most of the first draft that month. I know it meant a lot to a lot of people.
The last thing I remember was one of the members taking some heat because they made some comments in support of AI. It seemed like there was a lot of other drama going on too.
NaNoWriMo fundamentally changed the way I approached writing. I tend to be a loner when it comes to writing (well not just that really) and although I made some very small attempts at writing, I never got very far. With NaNoWriMo that changed. I “won” many times after the first attempt by reaching the word count though often with the story unfinished, and I ended up even self-publishing one of my better efforts. It was something my family all knew I was participating and would ask about. Last year I was surprised by the lack of announcements leading up to it and this year it is simply gone. Even thought I did not participate a lot with the community via the forums, etc. It still feels like a loss (worth a mini-rant anyway).
Thanks, I did not know about that. There is a local discord group that I briefly joined so I will look into what they have as well.