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Works great, providing many options, including NFS mounting for use by VMware.

I'm using this on a MacBook pro on win xp within VMware. It took installing it twice but it set up the second time.

Outstanding disk performance in both Windows and VMware (ESXi) environments. These are ideal in 8-to-5 shops having 24x7 systems as the SYSVOL because they have no moving parts. The SYSVOL remains active after the larger physical disks spin down after a period of inactivity. The lifespan of these SSD is quite long when used in systems with sufficient memory and low paging activity. For home use, they are blazing fast and second only to the M.2 SSDs available for the latest system board hardware. They run very cool. These SSD work well in both conventional BIOS and new UEFI systems. Do not use these SSD in a RAID environment. It is not recommended, and experience shows them to be problematic.

This laptop replaced a late 2019 MBP 16 with the 2.3HGz i9 CPU. I love the size and weight of the MBA compared with the larger machine. For the tasks I perform on this machine it performs flawlessly. In addition to the typical web browsing and office applications, I run Photoshop, Lightroom, and VMWare Fusion running the Windows 11 ARM preview (4GB RAM, 4 cores for the VM). It is not unusual for my memory usage to be up around 20GB with VMWare running along with a few other programs. So think about your planned usage of the machine when you're specifying memory. I bought a 100 watt Anker charger that is smaller than the 60 watt Apple charger, and it has enough power to charge my iPad Air and iPhone at the same time that it fast charges the MBA. The midnight color is gorgeous. The size and weight are perfect. This is even the best Apple laptop keyboard I've typed on in years, probably because it's not so far away from the front of the laptop as the one in the MBP 16 was. After a month of use, I am very pleased with this laptop.

Bought two for the Workstation, so I didn't care about the speakers, if I really wanted the sound would buy stand-a-lone good speaker set. Using these monitors for Photoshop, CAD, etc with no issues. Great Colours. Have them both attached to a monitor desk pole at the correct height for viewing.

While building my new workstation, I was looking into 4K screens as I was moving away from my MacBook Pro 15 inch retina and didn't want to drop the resolution too much. I spent a lot of time reading reviews and spec sheets and always came back to this screen. Since my main usage was for coding, I didn't mind too much about the 60hz refresh rate. Also, I didn't need any vesa mounting option as I had already planned on using the built-in support. I must say that after 6 months of daily use, I really love this screen! For this price, the text clarity is amazing and even the colors are better than I had anticipated. Even though I didn't buy it for gaming, I've played a few hours of Doom Eternal on it and it is perfectly acceptable. Would definitely buy again.

Purchased two of these and made my workstation so much easier to use.

Super small, exactly what I need for my workstation.

Great Workstation

Helps me keep my workstation looking neat.