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Keyboard & Mouse: iBUYPOWER Gaming
USB Keyboard + iBUYPOWER Gaming USB
Mouse
By Mike McEnery
My only CON is the keyboard and mouse are
Editor: Lake County Area Computer
hardwired which
Enthusiasts means extra wires on
editor@lcace.org my desk. The key-
board is a little mushy,
I recently purchased an iBUYPOWER
CO900iV2 gaming Desktop with Windows 10 and I will remedy that
installed. It is a little over the top for me (I am with a wireless setup in
not a gamer) but I plan on this PC to last me at a few weeks.
least 8-10 years, unfortunately the first machine
would not power up so I returned it to Costco. It
was a breeze to return, great customer service.
Exchanged the computers and went home.
Set up was easy right out of the box, and I was
up and running in less than 15 minutes. This
computer has met or exceeded all my expecta- Author: Jim Sanders, Director / Webmaster,
tions so far; it is extremely fast, and very power-
ful. Boot up time is maybe 10 seconds. I have North Orange County Computer Club, CA
run MS office 2019 and Photoshop Elements September 2019 issue, Orange Bytes
2020 and cannot believe the speed that Ele- www.noccc.org / jsanders (at) ligasmicro.com
ments runs.
The taskbar is a very important part of the Win-
dows 10 operating system.
For you techie’s it came with: Arguably, it's primary pur-
pose is to make computing
Processor & Memory: 9th Gen Intel® Core™ life for you, the user, easi-
i7-9700F 8 Core Processor 3.0GHz, 16GB er. Like a lot of things in
DDR4 2666MHz RAM Windows 10, most of the
Drives: 2TB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive, features in the taskbar can be implemented or
480GB SATA III Solid State Drive, No Optical modified in more than one way. Some, directly
Drive on the taskbar itself. For instance, the order in
which shortcut icons appear on the left end of
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows 10
Home (64-bit) the taskbar can be rearranged by simply moving
the cursor to that icon, left click and hold with
Graphics & Video: 8GB NVIDIA® GeForce® the mouse, then drag the icon left or right to the
RTX 2060 SUPER™ Graphics position that you want it to be in.
Communications: Wireless-AC 802.11 WLAN,
10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN
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