[AccessD] Black friday laptop for $599

Wed Nov 23 07:58:55 CST 2022

Jim,

Lenovoi expressly says that opening the case to add memory does not void
the warranty.  My Lenovo had two sockets, and I replaced both with 32gb
dimms.  Yea I know, a bit excessive, but mine is also an 8 core 16 thread
so I figured make it my last laptop purchase of my life and do it right.

IF this has a socket, you can (probably) put as large a dimm as you want
in.  It says 16gb max but I believe that is in a "preconfigured" state.  IF
that is true, you could put an 8, 16 or 32gb dimm in there.  The second
dimm (above the initial 8gb) would run slower since it would not be matched
by ram from the soldered down dimm, but it would still work and would give
you a total 16gb, 24gb or 40gb of RAM.

Again do your research, don't just take my word for it.

Also my machine had two slots for M2 NVME disks, with only one populated.
While I had it opened, I populated that second slot.

BTW I also tried and decided to purchase PrimoCache.  It really does work
very well, particularly if you sleep or hibernate your laptop so the cache
has a chance to build up hits.

On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 5:47 AM James Button via AccessD <
accessd at databaseadvisors.com> wrote:

> John,
>
> Thanks for the pre-Xmas post.
>
> I got a 'replacement' PC a couple of years ago,
>
> I7, 512GB and 8GB RAM, with Home,2x  USB-A @ 3.1 and 1 USB-c basic
> functionality.
> Fast,  but had to get USB-c to A converters  as there does not seem to be
> any
> 1->4 hubs with more than 1 USB-c , so using the -c in the PC to get 1 USB-c
> socket is no benefit
> That system having Home does not have the security facilities that the old
> system with Pro has.
> For 11 it seems that you need the hardware and the Pro for the added
> security.
> Also - from reading I should have got 16GB RAM, and for sandbox and the
> multi-tab facilities that I used to have with IE, I will need more than
> 16GB  in
> a couple of years of MS updates to win 11.
>
> Adding RAM - What about the  you opened the case - warrantee
> considerations!
>
> ( Still find that OneDrive needs about 4GB of the pagefile for file
> uploads - my
> 30+  4GB parts of a system backup.)
> Ooo-owww  - look at the EDGE activity 12 entries under Task-Manager
> details.
> And that is for less than the sort of workload that I can run in the
> ancient 2GB
> RAM Win-7 system.
>
> The old system Lenovo 2GB 12TB, 2 core CPU, is now almost always using the
> 8GB
> pagefile for any user 'action', lots of the OS activities in background.
> I am also finding that Excel has problems with things like a 1000 row, 15
> column
> copy and paste special values  sometimes reporting insufficient memory .
> and I suspect that is Real RAM  with the clipboard involved - Maybe a VBA
> script
> will be better user selects a source range,  and the script asks for a
> target
> location - option 8? on a user response to a message - point to the
> 'target' -
> avoid the clipboard and use Value2
>
> Last time I looked  the sort of system I would (it appears) need for by
> 2025 for
> win-11 will be running at well over £1000 + VAT(20%) in the UK
> Probably a newer series of I7 or equivalent CPU
> I would also recommend at least 2 fast USB-c ports and a memory card slot,
> as
> well as a high res HDMI ( or similar capability) port, or very fast WiFi
> for a
> 4K display when 'at home'.
>
> Backup ( SSD? If uploading to cloud, otherwise 4TB hard drive for bulk
> storage)
> - and the card for internal storage expansion
> If using Cloud  you will need a reasonably fast upload connection -
>  but the cloud provider will (should) keep their own backup of what you
> upload
>  so 4TB of cloud is the same as 2x4TB drives in the home, with the added
> benefit
> of off-site security.
> (theft, cryptomalware, PC blow-up while the drive is connected, OS glitch
> with
> the partition table or MFT, oops moment with the delete key,
> or just past it's 1 year warrantee/max usage limit - and a single  1 in
> 10^14
> error
> ( 1TB is 10^13 bits, a 4GB file is 32,000,000,000 bits, over 10^10 - lose
> one of
> a 30 file set, and that's that backup incomplete, or unreadable
>
>
> Regards, and thanks for the advisory post.
>
> JimB
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AccessD
> <accessd-bounces+jamesbutton=blueyonder.co.uk at databaseadvisors.com> On
> Behalf Of
> John Colby
> Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2022 2:59 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
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> Subject: [AccessD] Black friday laptop for $599
>
> Someone was looking for a powerful but inexpensive laptop.  In the US this
> fits that bill...
>
>
> https://www.walmart.com/ip/Lenovo-Legion-5-15-6-Ryzen-5-5600H-GeForce-RTX-3050-T
>
> i-8GB-RAM-512GB-SSD-Phantom-Blue-Windows-11-Home-82JW00Q7US/1097527049?athbdg=L1
> <https://www.walmart.com/ip/Lenovo-Legion-5-15-6-Ryzen-5-5600H-GeForce-RTX-3050-Ti-8GB-RAM-512GB-SSD-Phantom-Blue-Windows-11-Home-82JW00Q7US/1097527049?athbdg=L1>
> 800
>
> I haven't done a deep dive but I'm guessing that it has 8gb soldered down
> with 8 gig empty slot.   It says 16 g max, but only comes with 8gb.
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