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For $50, I bought a used Acer Aspire 5 Full HD 1080 laptop (MD Ryzen 3 3350U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx 2.10 GHz), 4.00 GB RAM, 118GB drive with Windows 11 Home. I upgraded it to 17GB RAM, 2TB drive with Ubuntu 23.10. Screams past both my Windows and MacBook laptops with "superior" credentials (and prices). I hardly ever use Windows or macOS any more.

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17GB of ram - why such a strange amount?

Maybe a typo?

Sorry, you are absolutely correct. I felt it was wrong when I typed it - the weird thing is that `free -g` returns 17, which is what I checked before typing. But in actuality there is 20GiB - bank:0 has 16GiB and bank:1 has the original 4GiB (confirmed by `sudo lshw -c memory`).

How does it behave when you play AV1 videos on YouTube?

AV1 is impressive.

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