G+_Rud Dog Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 Thoughts, experience or recommendation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Travis Hershberger Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 Looks like decent hardware for a good price. Only upgrade someone might want to consider is RAM, but 8GB should get by for the most part today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Including a 1TB HDD and a 256GB SSD is nice. I haven't seen that too often. I agree that 16 GB RAM would be nice, but 8 should be enough for most people. If the RAM isn't upgradable it would be hard to recommend for a geek. I've run some VMs that require 4GB (I think MS SQL Server vNext on Linux required 4GB and Couchbase on Linux required 4GB). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Mark Quinn Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Looks good to me. I would look into the battery but I'm pretty sure you could get an upgrade down the road if need be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Rud Dog Posted January 18, 2017 Author Share Posted January 18, 2017 Tom Krauska why is this important. Thank you. Mark Quinn is there something about the battery we should know. Thank you for your input. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Francisco Nogueira Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Good specs, no doubt about it. Personally, though, I would pass on it just because of the keyboard alone. Non-symmetrical keyboards just don't do it for me. And those home, end and page up/down keys' displacement seem even worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Rud Dog Posted January 18, 2017 Author Share Posted January 18, 2017 Francisco Nogueira Great feed back thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Francisco Nogueira Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 You're welcome. To be clearer, I just don't need a numeric keypad and can't seem to get used to horizontally positioned home/page/up/down/end keys. Just vertical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Mark Quinn Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 I just didn't see any battery specs and normally the battery that comes with most systems is not that great. Other than that I don't know anything about the battery for that system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 Rud Dog - the point Tom Krauska? was making about the OS on the SSD... SSDs boot way faster than HDDs. My 8+ year old machine boots in about 30 seconds with SSD or 3 minutes from HDD. Also, Windows will, by default, put the page file on the drive where Windows is installed. With an SSD you'll probably never notice it caching, but with HDD it's definitely noticeable - although, with 8GB RAM that should never be an issue anyhow. And, honestly, if Acer puts an SSD in the machine and is dumb enough to put Windows on the spinning disk, they have no business making laptops anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Francisco Nogueira Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 With a 256 SSD inside, I would just take the 1TB out and fit it in an external USB 3 case to do some archiving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Rud Dog Posted January 19, 2017 Author Share Posted January 19, 2017 Ben Reese Thank you. If they did place the OS on the spinning drive it would be more work for me to take out the drives and copy them on external cloning hardware. I see the possible extra work the maker could have avoided. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 Rud Dog since both drives are in the same machine, there wouldn't be any necessity to remove the drives. I suspect the SSD is M.2 and the HDD is SATA, so removing both disks may add a bit of complexity. Really at that point it would be better to just reinstall Windows on the new drive anyhow so you can also get rid of the added bloatware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Rud Dog Posted January 19, 2017 Author Share Posted January 19, 2017 Ben Reese agreed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Francisco Nogueira Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 What I meant was that I would take the spinning disk out permanently. For my type of usage, my laptop doesn't need more than 250 GB, that's for sure hence taking the spinning drive out and use it for archiving stuff (backups) and having it somewhere safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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