New laptop research
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- NEED: need ability to quickly be back up and running if stolen or lost or broken, this is a huge consideration to factor in wherever possible
- Time saved with faster computer more than makes up for the purchase cost, even 80 seconds a day lost over 3 years is the price of a new laptop in lost productivity and wages etc
- 3 year replacement cycle or faster if slowing down production is recommended
- Security is an important consideration, newer laptops that can run latest OS are more secure and this is a real consideration for me as I'm using it to manage everything
- Must support and use biometric security, I might be travelling / homeless and need a secure computer
- MULTI APP RUNNING AT ONCE; I used a *lot* of open windows and multiple things running at once, i'm getting by with 12gb of ram but is that enough and will windows 11 eat up more ram?
- Lowest bloatware and easily removed bloatware
- anti theft options, find my pc options?
- Most important aspects: Processor speed, Ram, storage speed.  Secondary: security features, portability, battery life, keyboard, Tertiary: display (will use monitor most of time)


New phone research
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- Security!!! New phone = more secure with latest OS if it can't run latest os it's insecure by definition; older phone could be a huge security risk
- Must use biometric security as good as possible
- anti theft / find my phone options?