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This is so cool! I am young enough where I don’t really remember edit from the MS-DOS days (i wasn’t there!) but nano has always been one of my favourite text editors to use on the CLI and it’s nice to see something similar existing on Windows.
As an aside, I also just learned about this: live.sysinternals.com - /tools/
I’ve been poking around at Process Explorer and I might start using this tool more than Task Manager. Process Explorer - Sysinternals | Microsoft Learn
We have all the power in the world, and we choose to use it to run Electron / WebView2 applications 
I don’t have proof / links, but I’m pretty sure Richard is wrong: they are spinning up new fabs for memory. They should be up in 2-3 years though.
I remember edlin, edit.exe was a huge step up!
Before nano, there was pico. I had to use that when I was in school for my freshman programming classes. At that point, we coded on the Solaris system using pico, then g++ to compile, etc. We also used pine to read our email. By the time I graduated, the freshman programing classes graduated to Borland C++. Of course, we had one student that insisted on using MS Visual C++. We had to explain to him that was fine, but the grader would be compiling code using Borland and if it didn’t compile, he’d fail. There was some syntax that MS accepted but Borland didn’t.
And old DOS edit. Who else remembers “edit autoexec.bat” or “edit config.sys”?
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Yeah, wasn’t it the text editor portion of an email client? I remember what a breath of fresh air it was when it first showed up. Yeah, I went and Googled for it, it was part of the Pine email system, ah… memories 
Pico (text editor) - Wikipedia
We tried to order a laptop before Christmas, but we had problems with the dealer the offer ran out while I was on leave and we had to get a new offer, the price of the new offer was $400 more expensive.
Brutal. Ouch. Do you think you’ll order extended warranties instead?
We take 5 year warranties as standard.
As a worker, I would hate to have the same computer for 5 years. This month is my 5 year anniversary working with my organization and I’ve had 3 different computers. Usually 2-3 years for each computer
Our users generally don’t care. They complain when they get too slow or they break down, but they generally work on the terminal server, so the speed of the laptop itself is fairly irrelevant for most of them.
When I started here, they were just swapping out the Windows 7 PCs, before 7 went end of life. We have a rush to replace them all again now, that Windows 10 is EOL. Some PCs have been in operation for 10 years, in the production area. The ones in back office generally got swapped out more often, but now that I have taken over the IT department, I want to try and get them swapped out every 4 years, so we don’t have the huge numbers to swap that we did with the swap to Windows 10 and then to Windows 11…
Luckily we have more people in the department now, so many projects that got postponed over the last 10 years are now being tackled and we are nearly up to date. Our old Exchange server is our biggest thorn in the side at the moment, I hope we can migrate that in January or the beginning of February.
Then we have a new computer room to fit out on another site this year, so it is going to be a fun-packed year… Again…
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My employer does a 4 year warranty and tries to replace laptops no sooner than every 5 years. Of course stuff breaks, usually after the warranty expires but before three 5-year mark. I’m currently on a loaner laptop for the next 6 months after the fan in mine died randomly.
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This current machine I’m using for work is a Macbook Air, it’ll be interesting to see when they offer me a new one. Maybe this will be the 5 year work machine