So I got a new laptop[views:8648][posts:22]______________________________________ [Jul 18,2012 9:03am - the_reverend ""] Really, this is the first lappy I have ever bought. HP had a 33% off deal. This is another reason that web access failed while trying to do RTTP this week. Here are the details: HP ENVY 15t-3200 Notebook PC A6U26AV Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 3rd generation Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3610QM Processor (2.3 GHz, 6MB L3 Cache) 1GB Radeon(TM) HD 7750M GDDR5 Graphics [HDMI, VGA] 8GB 1600DDR3MHz System Memory (2 Dimm) 1TB 5400 rpm Hard Drive Microsoft(R) Office Starter: reduced-functionality Word/Excel(R) only, No PowerPoint(R)/Outlook(R) FREE 2-year Norton Internet Security subscription (a $99 value). Pre-installed. 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery - Up to 10.25 hours of battery life +++ 15.6-inch diagonal Radiance Full HD Infinity LED-backlit Display (1920 x 1080) SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-R/RW with Double Layer Support 720p HD video streaming webcam supports Skype Intel 802.11a/b/g/n WLAN and Bluetooth(R) with Wireless Display Support Full-size Radiance backlit keyboard Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) Elements 10 & Adobe Premiere(R) Elements 10 2 year limited warranty included HP Home & Home Office Store in-box envelope I ran my image processing software on 212 - 16 mega pixel pictures: $10K server at work: 1.2 minutes work laptop (i5-2520): 3.5 minutes new laptop: 2.14 minutes Then I took out the 1TB and put in a 240GB SSD new laptop (SSD): 1.3 minutes So I will be happy with this camera I guess. |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 18,2012 9:05am - the_reverend ""] oh and thank you to my new sponsor AMEX for this purchase. |
| ____________________________________ [Jul 18,2012 9:14am - arilliusbm ""] ITT: my large donation to tips@rttp.us gets used |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 18,2012 9:17am - the_reverend ""] heh, thanks. I actually thought that alex made a fake account. |
| ____________________________________ [Jul 18,2012 9:22am - arilliusbm ""] Honestly, had I not recently moved and had more money, I would've donated a lot more due to the damage I've caused to the forum over the years. |
| ___________________________________ [Jul 18,2012 9:23am - arktouros ""] nice, get rid of the crapware and that's a nice desktop replacement |
| ____________________________________ [Jul 18,2012 9:26am - arilliusbm ""] Wil donate more soon. Send me your old laptop. |
| ____________________________________ [Jul 18,2012 9:29am - Alx_Casket ""] rock those adobe elements |
| ___________________________________ [Jul 18,2012 9:31am - arktouros ""] http://arstechnica.com/information-technol...-how-solid-state-disks-really-work/ |
| ___________________________________ [Jul 18,2012 9:31am - arktouros ""] that SSD performance increase is no joke. |
| __________________________________ [Jul 18,2012 9:34am - CurlyRed ""] I have been meaning to get a SSD for my laptop too. |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 18,2012 9:36am - the_reverend ""] I've never bought a laptop before. My "old" laptop is my work laptop and it sit at work. The whole reason for that is cause our source control at work over VPN takes 45 minutes to check in 5 files. Now, I leave the laptop at work and remote desktop into it to develop and it's soooo much better. This laptop can drive the primary display + 2 other connected displays and one other display over dlna. I haven't tried the network display yet. And I need a displayport to hdmi converter. Right now, I'm using 2x23" monitors pushed together to one giant display that is something like 2200x2048 |
| ____________________________________ [Jul 18,2012 9:37am - arilliusbm ""] Solid State Disk? Fool. Tube disks are better. |
| ____________________________________ [Jul 18,2012 9:38am - Alx_Casket ""] Do the rumors about SSD's burning out after being written to so many times have any validity? That was what kept me from upgrading to them all along. Ark, that link looks very informative but I don't have time to read it all. |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 18,2012 9:45am - the_reverend ""] I'm going to fap to ark's article later. I've had a 120GB SSD in 2 different servers over 4 years or so. In that time, I've had more than 8 hd die and no SSD's die. |
| ___________________________________ [Jul 18,2012 9:47am - arktouros ""] meh, i don't know. i haven't heard those rumors. i've been running 2 in raid0 on my desktop as my OS drive for almost 2 years and no problems at all. basically SSDs do a lot of work to make itself almost transparent to the system between the drive and RAM. |
| ___________________________________ [Jul 18,2012 9:48am - arktouros ""] and at work we've had zero problems in laptops, we don't use them in servers yet. |
| ____________________________________ [Jul 18,2012 9:53am - Alx_Casket ""] It might have been when SSD's were coming into the retail stream that I heard that rumor. Thanks for clarifying, I know what my next OS drive will be. |
| _____________________________________________ [Jul 18,2012 1:16pm - Ancient Master nli ""] NØØØØØØØRDS |
| __________________________________________ [Jul 18,2012 1:28pm - largefreakatzero ""] I gotta invest in a new one soon. Mine's several years old and getting sloooow. I use it for work, so I guess I gotta suck it up, but it totally digs into the firearms/ammo/tackle budget. |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 22,2015 8:55am - the_reverend ""] hm.. I thought I got this laptop in 2011 not 2012. |
| ____________________________________ [Sep 22,2015 5:20pm - Alx_Casket ""] The year is 2015 and I love my ssd. |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 23,2015 12:35pm - the_reverend ""] I put an SSD in this laptop (and all my laptops) |