To: Kurt Weiske
  Re: Postscript
  By: Kurt Weiske to All on Sun Sep 24 2023 11:20 am

 > From Newsgroup: micronet.comp
 >
 > So, I got my off-lease Dell a couple of weeks ago. It's a 9th generation
 > i7 with 64 GB of RAM and support for NVMe down the road. (for the time
 > being, I'm running on a SATA SSD...)
 >
 > I moved my existing SSD over to the new system, then realized it didn't
 > have Bluetooth or Wifi. I have ethernet in my office, so wifi isn't a
 > major concern, but Bluetooth was.
 >
 > I put the hard drive back in my old computer and the Windows Activation
 > bit claimed my system had changed and needed to be re-activated. I
 > couldn't re-activate it using my serial, so I put it back in the new
 > system. Works there.
 >
 > The great thing about Dells is the ability to source parts. I found a 2
 > 1/2" drive sled, Intel wireless/bluetooth card and a SD card reader on
 > Amazon, installed the hard drive properly, installed the card reader and
 > wireless/bluetooth, and ran the antenna cables between the outside of


you could have got a bluetooth usb dongle and a usb card reader too, instead of
cracking it open.
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