I promised you I would write something about my new laptop, but I don’t really feel like it (you’ll probably think I’m just showing off, when in fact not only can I not afford it, I don’t even have the accessories for it). Besides, I already wrote earlier about how I got this laptop, so now just the hardware specs and so on.
So first, the pride of my laptop:
That is mainly thanks to the Sandy Bridge processor architecture (the latest generation, although a newer one is already on the way with an even more “nano” manufacturing process of an incredible 22nm – Ivy Bridge). It should go on sale sometime in April, though the exact date varies by source: https://www.google.com/sorry/index?continue=https://www.google.com/search%3Fclient%3Dopera%26rls%3Den%26q%3Divy%2Bbridge%26sourceid%3Dopera%26ie%3Dutf-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26channel%3Dsuggest%26sei%3Dx0OLapDTNZmpxc8PodrqQA&q=EgSTTvBzGMiHrdQGIjCLC4ejh6KhVhYiWIVbRFzVhZpWY2uDlmpZIzZPlvxNG_EIppEigiJQ5YtdThOsA6AyAVJaAUM .
I read up a bit on this type of cache at https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache , so I understand it has 2MB of buffer memory between the main memory and the cache. I just don’t know whether that’s a lot or a little, because this processor isn’t listed on Heureka, and where else can you compare its specs with similarly cheap ones? http://procesory.heureka.cz . It’s probably not much, but for my purposes it’s perfectly sufficient.
Also, even though I’m not doing anything demanding, you can see that I’m pushing the processor to the max, because it’s running at 2093MHz right now :).
The maximum power consumption is a bit higher than on my old one, where the mobile AMD E drew about 18W, but for this performance it’s simply worth it.
The second pride of this laptop is the RAM, not in capacity (that’s standard, but in speed):
1 slot is occupied by a 4 GB stick of RAM. Unfortunately, I don’t know whether I can add another one without having to reactivate Windows, but I’ll have to try and hopefully I’ll get away with it. Right now I have 6GB (4+2) of spare RAM from my previous laptops, which will get Linux, as it is less demanding on hardware. Does anyone want some RAM? 😀 I don’t really understand those specs, but this is easier for me to understand:
That’s how powerful my laptop is 😀 For comparison, my brother’s desktop:
I don’t get the HDD score: my old laptop also has 5.9, and it doesn’t have a 500GB disk but only 320GB. The other HDD specs should be the same – Seagate Momentus, 5400 RPM, SATA II. So either they cut corners on the disk in this laptop, or it’s down to software – there’s some “Intel Rapid Storage Technology” running here.
There was a whole sea of HP utilities after installation anyway, see the screenshot of how it looked right after unboxing the laptop:
One of the first things I did was reorganize the disk. Afterwards it looked like this:
For years I’ve been used to having 4 partitions – C:, Data, Download and Documents 🙂 After partitioning the disk I could start moving files over from the old laptop. This is part of drive F: (Documents):
Yep, those are the source files. :). Right after that I uninstalled the worst piece of junk on that PC, namely:
And in return I installed the most important and most beloved program, if I may say so:
Otherwise, until now the sound hadn’t acted up, but just now it switched to the speakers a couple of times even though I had my headphones plugged in. But I think the previous one did that too, so I’m not worried for now, hopefully it’ll be OK. Everything else works fine.
And the photos and my first impressions after unboxing are here: 👻 The server has been sent to a retirement home for domains.