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I am computer technician and have been working in the field for over 25 years. I grew up with computers at home and we had them before my school had any.

Ubiquiti End of Life for certain Access Points

I just found out that Ubiquiti will not offer updates for certain Access Points because they are supposedly old, even though some are 802.11AC. I can understand that they don’t want keep on updating older products, but why are they preventing you from using(configuring) these outdated Access Points with the newer Controller Software. If you upgrade your controller above version 6.0.45 you will not be able to manage these older Access Points. They will still work with the current configurations but you will not be able to change any of their settings and you will not be able to adopt new ones.

There are a few questions I have. 1) Why on the Ubiquiti website are they still selling the obsolete products and not specifying on the product page(UAP-AC-IW-PRO) or their store (UAP-AC-IW-PRO) that they are obsolete and they will not work with the newest Controller version? 2) How log after a product is release do they consider it Obsolete? 3) When will they retire the UAC-AP-Pro?

Ubiquiti has 2 steps before a product is obsolete.
Step 1, Vintage Products – no longer manufactured. They will still received updates and they can still be configures and adopted in to your controller.
Step 2, Obsolete – Stopped receiving updates and they can’t be be configured or adopted by newer controller software. They are stuck with the current configuration once you update the controller software.

Here is a link to a list of Ubiquiti products that are Vintage and Obsolete.

AMD

Chipset specs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_chipsets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Ryzen_processors

https://www.amd.com/en/products/chipsets-am4

AMD Chipset Comparison
https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3582-amd-chipset-differences-b550-vs-x570-b450-x470-zen-3

https://www.gamersnexus.net/news-pc/3611-amd-a520-chipset-comparison-specs

B550
https://www.amd.com/en/chipsets/b550

What memory has good compatibility with Ryzen CPUs?

Ryzen CPUs perform better with higher speed memory. Please note that memory compatibility at higher speeds will depend on your CPU and motherboard combination, and not just the CPU.

  • Ryzen 1000 CPUs have good compatibility up to 2933MHz.
  • Ryzen 2000 CPUs have good compatibility up to 3200MHz.
  • Ryzen 3000 CPUs have good compatibility up to 3600MHz.
  • Ryzen 5000 CPUs have good compatibility up to 3600MHz+.

Newer chipsets will have an easier time handling higher speed memory. For example, a B550 will handle higher speed memory better compared to B450.

Acer Computer

Should you buy an Acer computer? That depends if you like to repair them yourself. The power supply is not standard like most new prebuilt computers, but my current experience with Acer is that they didn’t have my PSU or they didn’t want to sell it to me directly. When I called their only authorized company that sells their parts (800-999-4409) they said they don’t have it in stock but they can get it from Acer. It was close to twice the price of a standard PSU. The problem is that the price of the PSU is almost not worth it compared to the price of the computer. When I searched the internet for the part, the only place that sold it was in Europe.

Another thing that doesn’t make it worth buying an Acer computer is that even under warranty, the customer pays for shipping to the warehouse.

I check to see if the same problem is with HP and Dell on their non-standard Power Supplies. The Dell PSU for an XPS computer I was able to find for a decent price, but is was only from one company. The HP PSU was only available USED.

So is it worth buying prebuild computers that come with non-standard Power Supplies when a big part of the cost is the time spent setting up the computer?