expired Posted by dealhunter07 • Jul 1, 2022
Jul 1, 2022 7:26 PM
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expired Posted by dealhunter07 • Jul 1, 2022
Jul 1, 2022 7:26 PM
HP Laptop (Refurb): i5-1155G7, 17.3" FHD IPS, 12GB RAM, 1TB HDD + 2-Yr Warranty
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There's an empty M.2 slot, which can accept a 2280 form factor "gumstick" NVME SSD (but not a SATA M.2). Spend $40 more to get one & make it as the system drive. It will greatly improve the performance of this laptop.
The 1TB "old" HDD could be kept and used as media storage…
<attachment>HDD in green square...M.2 in red circle
AND: This is a 11th Gen Intel Tiger Lake processor, so you will probably need this also.
No drives were found during Windows Installation during Setup
[thewindowsclub.com]
Unable to Detect the Drive When Installing a New Windows* OS on 11th Gen Platforms [intel.com]
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The mechanical hd is inappropriate these days. Just way too slow. Also, they really cheaped out on the wifi. Rtl8821 is quite weak being 1x1 and old. No ethernet, no usb 3.2 gen 2 (10gbps), no video through usb c. Relatively dim display.
My drive had 68 hours of run time. Also, the drive uses shingled magnetic recording. This slows down the drive even further. Then they went cheap with the ram. Normally it's preferred to use matched capacity modules so dual channel works. Here they're mismatched.
Lots and lots of corners cut. Maybe these were to be distributed to schools when they realized it wouldn't serve the purpose well. Who knows.
This model is a good unit(especially with M.2 SSD) , but is infamous for a missing Num Lock indicator.
That's right - - HP chose to provide NO indicator to tell you if the Num Lock is on or off.
There is a generic HP app that will give you an onscreen display to resolve this glaring design oversight
The mechanical hd is inappropriate these days. Just way too slow. Also, they really cheaped out on the wifi. Rtl8821 is quite weak being 1x1 and old. No ethernet, no usb 3.2 gen 2 (10gbps), no video through usb c. Relatively dim display.
My drive had 68 hours of run time. Also, the drive uses shingled magnetic recording. This slows down the drive even further. Then they went cheap with the ram. Normally it's preferred to use matched capacity modules so dual channel works. Here they're mismatched.
Lots and lots of corners cut. Maybe these were to be distributed to schools when they realized it wouldn't serve the purpose well. Who knows.
I also doubt the mechanical hard drive is why people are returning these - the average person who buys a computer wouldn't know the difference between an SSD or a mechanical unless they are doing gaming or graphics. I can't imagine that is the reason people are returning these.
There's an empty M.2 slot, which can accept a 2280 form factor "gumstick" NVME SSD (but not a SATA M.2). Spend $40 more to get one & make it as the system drive. It will greatly improve the performance of this laptop.
The 1TB "old" HDD could be kept and used as media storage…
<attachment>HDD in green square...M.2 in red circle
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I also doubt the mechanical hard drive is why people are returning these - the average person who buys a computer wouldn't know the difference between an SSD or a mechanical unless they are doing gaming or graphics. I can't imagine that is the reason people are returning these.
Without an upgrade this computer will feel slower in general day to day tasks than most computers/chrome books released in the past few years with small capacity ssds. The technical unsavy may not know that the cpu is faster for computations/work/gaming if the time to do everything else I is a downgrade.
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I did have a strange problem trying to boot from the SSD. The machine always wanted to use the spinner and wouldn't let me choose. I disconnected the spinner, booted from SSD and from that point forward it prefers to boot to the SSD.
Paying for the newegg name (which, is somewhat worthless if you follow the videos from gamer's nexus). Go for this one and install win11 yourself if you want it.
Paying for the newegg name (which, is somewhat worthless if you follow the videos from gamer's nexus). Go for this one and install win11 yourself if you want it.
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