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[WARNING] Minimum storage requirement increases for Windows 10 May 2019 Update
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carmen617
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That should work great on those 32gb consumer monstrosities HP was pushing a few years ago. I run across one of them every so often - nasty little pieces of junk that are almost impossible to update.
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I have seen them in many brands not just HP.
I still see Walmart selling these horrible 32gb systems in several different brands in the stores I go to. Even seen a Walmart ad promoting the HP stream in my facebook feed last week. The comments on that ad were what I expected. Lots of people wondering how the hard drive can be full when they just got it. Hopefully this 1903 edition finally kills them off.
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Yeah, they can't even get the 1903 update since it requires more free space than they come with. 120 GB should be the minimum drive size in my opinion.
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Agreed.
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Yeah, actually I have too, but it seems the HP was the most mainstream. I had a woman with a full sized 14" Dell laptop that had a full 32GB eMMC but also clearly had a hard drive bay. I said to her, let's just put a real drive in there, but fortunately I opened the bottom of the laptop before I took it with me to upgrade. The good news was, it was easy to access the hard drive bay. The bad news was, there was nothing there but an empty bay with no connectors. Apparently that model was sold with either the eMMC OR a regular SATA drive, and no way to upgrade. Who would ever think that 32GB was enough space for Windows 10?
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Manufactures who are just putting out a CHEAP "computer" for fools to buy.
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Screw that, I won't support anything smaller than 250gb. I put 120s in my kid's computers used for web browsing, by the time Office was installed the things were basically out of space.
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I don't either. But for those crappy budget computers it would be a step in the right direction. Hopefully they do not make soldered on emmc drives that size.
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Right? 32gb is getting tight for a stupid phone these days!
64GB is OK for installs, updates etc. Of course the average home user would easily fill it up though...
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"40MB should be enough for anyone" - Bill Gates
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Ah, I clearly remember selling IBM PC's with 10MB "Winchester" drives (as a non-oem add on upgrade, cuz IBM didn't offer them) for over $5K delivered, and telling the client that this was more storage than they would ever need!
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I wonder why the jump to 32 GB?
Maybe because the files "expand" during installation and might get cleaned up later? So even though a fresh 1809 install is only like 12GB, it might use more temporarily until it's all said and done? Or is it what they figure is "minimally viable" for users to run the machine in an "office" type use capacity?
Maybe because the files "expand" during installation and might get cleaned up later? So even though a fresh 1809 install is only like 12GB, it might use more temporarily until it's all said and done? Or is it what they figure is "minimally viable" for users to run the machine in an "office" type use capacity?
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