Showing posts with label laptops. Show all posts
Showing posts with label laptops. Show all posts

Friday, January 16, 2026

The "death" of my two old πŸ’»'s hard disk drives...

You probably remember the time when I used to own both of those following πŸ’»s before I own my current one (Lenovo), which those were both 13" Dell and Samsung, respectively... Since both of them were no longer work properly, I decided to take each of their own hard disk drives from them both in order to retrieve MANY of my old archived files from it. However, they both suddenly had their own problem where I was attempted to connect them to my current πŸ’» using the USB SATA cable, therefore I no longer able to retrieve ALL of my old archived files from them both anymore. Without further ado, let me explain both of those hard drives that came from both of those old πŸ’», right away.

A. Western Digital 500 GB (13" Dell)

Started off with this particular Western Digital 500 GB one. This was the one that originally came with that ancient 13" Dell πŸ’» that I stupidly wasted a lot of bucks from 6 years ago. At first glance, it worked reasonably fine, including by how I connected to my current πŸ’» using the SATA USB cable roughly after a while later since the Dell's LCD backlight screen died. However, somewhere in the last year, it suddenly ran into a problem where it simply bogged down for a whole lot, which caused it painfully slow to load everything on my current πŸ’»'s screen, specifically on the Windows Explorer. I tried many ways in order to fix it, but it barely did anything. Right now, I still keep it despite the current state that it has, but I don't think if I eventually decide to plug it on my current πŸ’» though for the umpteenth time.

B. Toshiba 320 GB (Samsung)

And then, there's this particular Toshiba 320 GB, which originally came from my old Samsung that I purchased back in 2013 (which also replaced my very first laptop, which was that Acer, though the condition of that Acer was okay apart from that weird BSOD itself which I already explained in some of my older Blogspot articles before)... Right after the original LCD screen itself went all white (which was unrepairable, with how the screen's bezel itself was also broken on one of the hinges), I decided to take the hard disk drive itself out from it and connected it to my current πŸ’» using the SATA USB cable, though I had a lot of "effort" for removing it from my old πŸ’»'s hard disk drive's slot thanks to all of those screws that originally screwed it in there. Similarly to that Western Digital one, it used to work reasonably okay, either during the old πŸ’» that used to equip it was working on it's own for years, or during I connected it to to my current πŸ’» using the SATA USB cable...... until it suddenly ran into a problem in similar fashion to that Western Digital too, except it now no longer getting recognized with my current πŸ’». During it occurred, I was attempted to check ALL of my old archived files on it, and then Windows Explorer on my current πŸ’» suddenly froze instead. Instead of restarting the Windows Explorer during it was in "Not Responding" state, I stupidly unplug the hard drive itself RIGHT in that exact state❗ Because of that, it simply no longer getting recognized with my current πŸ’». I tried many ways in order to fix it, but it obviously didn't do anything at all, yet it also makes some weird ticking noises from it too when this occurred.

(notice for how severely crooked the πŸ’»'s screen is...)

Well then, there you have it for both of those old πŸ’» hard disk drives that were once worked, but now both of them have their problems that I couldn't even fix them purely by myself. If you know about how to repair them (though it's nearly impossible to fix them both), please let me know particularly about it in the comments section if you're able to. That's basically it for what I could particularly say about this, and pay attention when it comes to treating one of those old physical storage devices like those, otherwise they will end up like both of those that I mentioned there.




Sunday, April 6, 2025

imagine if i would keep my very first πŸ’»...❔

This is rather short article that I made here, but imagine if I'd actually doing so instead of owning my current one that I'm using it nowadays? Well, if you may recognize this in few of my older articles that I made from a while ago, you might recognize that old Acer Aspire 4741Z laptop that I used to own since somewhere in 2009 until roughly 4 years later. That laptop had some error where it always went to BSOD all the time, yet the BSOD itself lasted about few seconds until it automatically restarted again by itself until I forced to turn it off. Although I used to bring it multiple times in the large electronic store where I purchased this back in the day, but in the meantime where I encountered that exact error itself, instead of fixing it due to the condition of the aforementioned laptop itself was okay, I stupidly exchanged it with the 2013 Samsung (which I realized if the Samsung had somewhat lower build quality compared to that aforementioned Acer or other brands [including the one that I'm using right now, which is the Lenovo], TBH).πŸ’»

(this screenshot has nothing to do with the πŸ’» that I'm talking about)

Even though I still recognized that exact time where I exchanged it with that crappy Samsung, but imagine if I would keeping it instead of that particular option that I actually did it back then? Well, the answer of it would be obvious, by upgrading some crucial components inside, specifically for storage, RAM, and processor... First off, for the storage itself, that laptop originally had 320 GB of HDD (if I guessed that right). I'd upgrade it with (at least) 128 GB of SATA SSD for the operating system storage, and I'd also reuse it's own original HDD that came with it by replacing the obsolete DVD-RW drive using the HDD itself by installing the aforementioned hard drive itself on a caddy... Then, for the RAM that came with it, it originally had a single 1 GB of DDR3 RAM stick (if I guessed that right too), I'd upgrade it by purchasing pair of brand new 4 GB of DDR3 RAM sticks... Lastly, for the processor itself, it originally had Intel Pentium P6000 (❔). I had no clue about the replacement processor that would work with the entire laptop itself though... As for the random miscellaneous components like the LCD screen, battery, and CMOS battery, I also had no clue if either one of them would be replaced since last time I used it back in those days, they were all in fairly good condition per each of them (though the original battery itself didn't last for at least an hour though, from what I remembered back in those days).πŸ’»

Well then, there you have it for my short story that literally explained about it in general. Even though that laptop may seem obsolete on it's own, but that laptop would also have it's own potential if I would keeping it with all of those upgraded components equipped, unless if my budget would enough for doing so, otherwise that would cost averagely similar to the one that I'm using nowadays... If you have your own thoughts regarding to this exact topic, feel free to share your own story in the comments section if your memory serves it right (if you used to have at least one of them in your own). That's it for what I could particularly say about this particular topic, and as always, thanks for reading this short article.πŸ’»


Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Experience with free Windows 10 video editor, but...

After I made my article that literally explained about how's my overall experience with that good old Windows Movie Maker that I recently installed it in my current πŸ’» that I'm using right now, it's time to retrospect it for a bit by explaining about my overall experience of (supposed to be) it's "successor", which used to be available for pure free since I acquired my own πŸ’» with Windows 10 installed. Without further ado, let me particularly explain about my about my experience with this particular video editor, right away.

Again, just like that old Windows Movie Maker (even if it looked so different compared to that classic version that everybody would know and enjoyed), there's nothing else that I could say to this particular video editor, apart from the fact this used to be available for free from the Photos app, yet according to some random sources online, it was also known as "Microsoft Story Remix". Yes, it also had limited features just like it's own predecessor that I was talking about, but it had several differences between this and that aforementioned video editor, such as:

  1. Unlike that old Movie Maker which would you to save any of the edited footages into a project file (.wlmp), this one simply saved the edited footages immediately after you close the project itself. Except, any of the selected media files that I included them into it also copied them into certain folders too (for instance, Libraries > Pictures > Video Projects for both picture and video files for some reason, and Libraries > Music > Video Projects for audio files, respectively). πŸ“
  2. In order to trim or split video footages, it always introduced me to do one of the said ways in it's own separate editing window to do so per each of them both. ✂🎞
  3. In order to add either stock music tracks or any of my own music or sound tracks to certain parts of the edited footage (including how I trimmed certain parts of the music or sound tracks itself), it also introduced me to do it in it's own separate editing window to do so. ✂🎡🎢🎼
  4. In order to add any of stock title cards (or stock captions) that came with it, it also introduced me to do it in it's own separate editing window to select which one that I'd want among all of those ones that were available in there (including that Comic Sans one, ugh).
  5. It had an option to remove black bars on any of my own pictures with (mostly) 4:3 aspect ratio, unlike that old Movie Maker, which didn't have any. πŸ–Ό
  6. It also had a feature to add certain 3D objects and certain visual effects that came particularly with it, which most of them had their own unique sound effects too.

Even though it did work just fairly decent as what I expected since I initially discovered it, of course there were some flaws that it specifically had during I tried to edit my own videos on it, such as:

  1. NO option for adding transitions between two pictures of videos at all... Simple as that.
  2. Most of the stock music tracks that came with it were copyrighted. This was occurred in few of my videos that I edited using it with most of those music tracks that I literally added on them. Then, I uploaded them on YouTube, and after few moments later, they were detected if most of those music tracks that I put on them were copyrighted indeed. Not only just that, it also didn't have a feature to trim the music tracks that came with it into specific position of the edited video footage itself, unlike any of my own music tracks that I put on it, which they simply did. ©πŸŽ΅⚠
  3. The edited video footages sometimes stuttered for a little bit during I tried to play the edited footages through it's own preview pane, and it also even led into a black screen for a brief moment.
  4. Even if it had cool selection of title cards (or captions), there were no options to customize those texts anyway.
  5. No option for adding both fade in and fade out audio transitions for the videos, unlike how it literally had that particular feature for any of my own music or sound tracks that I added them on it.
  6. The exporting process sometimes stuck, especially during I tried to export my edited video footages that had certain amount of length and quality that I'd export it to (which I usually set it to 1080p).

After I used it particularly as a simple video editor for roughly 2 years, it eventually omitted for real since the Photos app itself literally updated to it's latest version. Even if the Video Editor app is still present until today, it literally redirects me into the newer Photos app itself without the said video editor itself. Instead, it offered me to install Microsoft Clipchamp, which I already experienced it for a little bit in one of my articles that literally explained about video editors that I ever used on my own current πŸ’» in general. However, I found out the way to revisit it back by downloading it's own separate legacy version of the Photos itself, but I don't think if I'm able to do so for editing even more of my own videos specifically using it for now... Well, if you also have an experience when it comes to editing your own video footages using one of these, feel free to say your experience with it in the comments section if you still recognize it anyway, albeit it's obviously less memorable than that old Movie Maker. That's it for what I could specifically say to it, and as always, thanks for reading this particular article.

Sunday, October 29, 2023

Experience with old Windows Movie Maker...🎞🎬

Note: You must be extremely careful when it comes to searching and downloading this particular old video editing software from various random sites out there. I'm not guarantee if most of them might offer some sort of fake file installers of themselves that contains any kinds of malware that may harm your computer's or laptop's entire operating system instead.

This ain't my filler article that explains about my previous article that explains about the update of the video editing software that I ever used on my current laptop that I'm using these days in general. However, I recently tried yet another video editing software that is pure free (but not trial), and it is literally the previous iteration of that particular free Windows 10 video editor that is now gone, thanks to how they decided to get rid of it in the latest version of the Photos app, unless I'd love to use the Microsoft Clipchamp instead, which I also clearly stated it briefly in the same update article of those video editors that I ever used in my current laptop... Okay, of course you probably mentioned this particular iteration of the said Windows's official free video editor before, the old Windows Movie Maker. Even though I recently use it for a bit for basic video editing (which basically just it), but I already found some of my short results when it comes to how I'm recently using it. So, without further ado, let me explain particularly about my experience with this particular old Windows video editor, right away. 🎞

There's nothing else that I could particularly say to it though, apart from the fact how Microsoft no longer supporting this particular video editing software back in January of 2017. Well, that doesn't stop it by how I was able to search it online by simply downloading the software itself until I found the installer file itself in particular, called "Windows Essentials 2012" (wlsetup.exe). With the old .NET Framework 3.5 that was already installed on my current laptop's Windows 10 operating system by default since I acquired from then (or I did it somehow by downloading and installing it particularly from one of those monthly updates from Windows Update, oh boy), it's not really a big deal for installing it either way (unless if it wouldn't present yet, I must download and install it anyway, otherwise it wouldn't work at all)... There were certain options for installing certain programs that was bundled with the "Windows Essentials 2012", such as Messenger, Mail, Writer, and most importantly, Photo Gallery and Movie Maker. Of course I obviously just chose Photo Gallery and Movie Maker only, because why not. 🎞

Upon I successfully installed and decided to open it, there's nothing else that I could particularly say to it as it works just fairly okay, until I decided to have some fun by importing some of my own photo and video files on the project file. While it literally has limited features unlike majority of the other kinds of video editors that I mentioned in those two of my article that explained about my experience of me using them, it does it's basic job as what I expected for (ranging from all kinds of basic editing that I can deliver on it, until how I'm able to export my edited video footages from it just fine), albeit the UI of it looks so different compared to the beloved classic version that used to exist in everybody's computers or laptops with Windows XP/Vista installed back in those days. Even then, this particular video editor is somewhat better compared to that free Windows 10 video editor that used to exist, thanks to how it obviously has certain features that didn't present in that free Windows 10 video editor, being one of them is the transitions between two photos or videos (albeit you can only set it between from 0.5 seconds to 2 seconds though)... Again, it does it's own basic job when it comes to editing my own videos in general, but it does have certain flaws while I'm editing any of my own video footages on it. Those are:

  1. It takes a while to import certain video files with higher resolution and larger file sizes.
  2. The edited video footage sometimes drop some frame rates while I'm tried to play it through the preview pane, unless I have to "fix" it specifically using two options from the settings of this whole video editor (can you guess about what are those two options that I'm talking about, although if I somehow "fix" it through both of those said options, it eventually leads into another problem where the whole software itself just performs partially unstable).
  3. While I put some music tracks or sound effects on the project, it's so awkward while I tried to move those bars around it no matter what.
  4. No option for adding shadow effects on the texts.
  5. No "Picture-in-Picture" option, and so for how it doesn't have an option to remove black bars on the pictures that I added them on the project.
  6. No option for turning the main editing pane from both storyboard and timeline modes, which used to exist in the classic Windows XP/Vista versions of it.
  7. While I'm applying certain hefty stuffs to the project that consists of (mostly) certain edited video footages, it sometimes causing the whole program itself to freeze and crash. It also makes the matters worse once it crashed, it sometimes refused to open until I must restart my whole laptop's operating system in order to make it work.

Well, there you have it for my experience of me using this old Windows Movie Maker in general. After that actual riddance of that free Windows 10 video editor, I don't think if I'm able to find yet another free (but not trial) video editing software that may work just decently on my current laptop with it's own modern day πŸ₯” specifications, just clearly stated as what I already explained in my previous articles about themselves... If you have plenty of good memories when it comes to editing your own video footages using one of these, feel free to say your experience with it in the comments section if your memory still serves them right in your own mind. That's it for what I could say to this, and as always, thanks for reading this particular article. 🎞




Saturday, April 23, 2022

Errors and BSODs on your laptop(s)...πŸ’»❌

(Not my picture, but it belongs to somebody else who got this BSOD)

Note : Yes, I actually have my own picture of BSOD that occurred on one of my laptops that I ever owned, but unfortunately, I posted it on Google+ few years ago until the Google+ itself got shut down later on without downloading it back... So, I decided to put this screenshot instead, even though the error code on this BSOD itself is the same like what I literally saw exactly like so just before...

Well, it's time to explain about something different on tech topics, which is me explaining about certain errors and blue screen of deaths that occasionally happened in every single of my own Windows laptops that I ever owned from then until today.  There are plenty of certain errors and BSODs that I encountered from the past until today, especially for my first two laptops that I ever owned with their own poor specifications (unless I'd love to upgrade either one of it's own guts anyway).  Anyway, without further ado with it, let me explain about my short stories of certain errors and BSODs that were occurred through all of my Windows laptops that I ever owned from then until today.

A. Errors

There are plenty of errors that I ever spotted on my laptops in general, mostly occurred in some of my older ones with their own poor specifications. Here are bunch of my traits about certain errors themselves that I referred them to:

  • First off, sometimes the whole system just bogged down a lot, which causing it performs so poorly (judging by the fact I checked it through Task Manager, the CPU always goes on 100%, freaking all the time!). When that happens, it occasionally makes weird "pup" sounds every time I tried to click anything, or on most cases, the cursor sometimes can't reach the taskbar or it stopped responding for a moment... The only way to fix it is obviously just force shut down the whole system, and it would probably fix it entirely. Or, on the worst cases, it would occasionally trip into BSOD instead until I must force shut it down.
  • Another error that caused the whole system just bogged down a lot, which involves certain programs that I downloaded them from an internet, especially from the shady sites where I downloaded them from. I tried to open it, the whole system just doing that. Even I tried to delete it, it keeps doing so as well (until I finally able to get rid of it off, slowly)... There was also another behavior of the (almost) similar problem, but it occasionally occurred during I tried to open certain heavy programs, then the whole system suddenly bogged down a lot or completely stuck.
  • Some older programs that intended to run on older versions of Windows would simply crash. Remember my old and popular post of me explaining those old 64 GameHouse games that were available on one my old laptops with Windows 7 installed? Most of them just wouldn't work on it or newer versions of Windows for very obvious reasons.
  • Certain errors that involves me tried to connecting my laptop into my home Wi-Fi network, ranging on the way how it simply won't connect due to glitched options, IP address conflict (sometimes, especially for my good old days with Windows 7 yet accordingly to what it literally said), and so on.
  • Certain severe system bugs or glitches that I couldn't recognize on which programs or system features that causing that to occur.

B. Blue screen of death (BSOD)

From what I remembered, I spotted at least two BSODs on my laptops from then until today. Although one of them may happen sometimes, but the other one was definitely the most frightening one that I ever seen so far. So, here are two moments about how the BSODs on my laptops occurred:

  • First off, when I'm doing certain tasks with sounds (such as playing media files, playing games, or even online streaming stuffs), the whole system just suddenly freezes with the way how the sound also freezes as well. Then, after few seconds later, it triggers the BSOD... FYI, the one that I ever caught back from few years ago had an error code on it's own BSOD, which was Kernel Data In-page Error. Probably because I have too much force multitasking that caused it triggers like so? I think so, specifically for my old laptops with their own poor specifications.
  • Then, here is my most frightening one that occurred on my very first laptop that I ever experienced so far. For absolutely no reason, it keeps BSOD right after I booted up the whole system. Unlike the first one which the BSOD stayed like it should be, this one just simply showed it ONLY for few seconds, then it restarted... It keeps doing it's own looping sequences like so for many times until I obviously force shut it down yet I brought it to the service center to reset it. I couldn't remember the error code on this particular weird BSOD, sadly.

There you have it for my own short stories of certain errors and blue screen of deaths (BSOD) that I experienced on my Windows laptops in general... As for my current laptop that I have right now, I also experienced some of the errors like what I stated above, but not all of them that I ever caught though. Here are bit of my specific experiences with my current laptop related to this topic that I clearly made in this post:

  • The whole system just bogged down a lot every time right after I installed certain updates from Windows Update, sometimes. Even though I'm able to pause it for a week by accessing it's own settings, there is no way to manually stop it entirely apart from pausing it for a week, specifically for my Windows 10 version that is installed on my current laptop (Home SL)... So, in order to fix it, I have to either shut it down then I turn it on few times, or even restart it few times (if it works straight off the bat without any sudden horrible lags like so). Well, at least it doesn't trip into BSOD though.
  • A tiny bit of minor problem where I do certain things with sounds (such as playing any media files, games, or even playing any of their online counterparts), sometimes the sound just freezes up for a split second... I ever experienced if my current laptop's whole system just froze the whole system with the way how the sound also froze, but it also didn't trip into BSOD anyway, because I was able to force shut down by simply holding the power button during that occurred.
  • Another bad experience about how my current laptop also sometimes froze during I opened certain programs in one desktop (mainly for heavy ones like browsers, video editing software, or even games), the whole system just suddenly went stuck, and I couldn't even move my mouse's cursor at all during this occurred... Either way, it sometimes fixed by itself after few minutes; or on the worst cases, it kept doing so until it would trip to BSOD instead, but I was able to fix it by simply force shut down by holding the power button too.

Well, I think that's pretty much it for what I could say about this topic that literally explains about certain errors and blue screen of deaths on all of my laptops that I ever owned, ranging from my very first one till all the way into my current one that I'm using right now. Pay full attention if you want to optimize your computer(s) or laptop(s) properly, if you don't want any of these problems that I clearly listed here will happen in yours too at one day or sooner... Anyway, that's it from what I summed up about this topic that explains about them both cause I literally lost my words (or sentences) and ideas about whatever else that I will tell you next, and as always, thanks for reading this post.

Friday, February 26, 2021

Experience with my new Lenovo laptop...

Inspired by my previous post of that old 13,3" Dell Latitude E4310 that I got from online shop that I paid for roughly 200 bucks for it, then after 3 months later, it's own LCD screen's backlight just DIED!!! Then, I switched back to my old cheap Samsung laptop from 2013 for a while until it's own LCD screen also got it's own problem as well, but different way...  For now,  I already switched from those two of my broken laptops into my current one, and the brand of this laptop that I'm using right now is the Lenovo. Without any further ado with it, let's take a look at my experience of me with it.

1. General_πŸ’»

In case you've wondering about the brand and the model of the particular laptop that I simply got it from a local laptop store in my hometown, it's the Lenovo V14-ADA, and I paid for roughly 630 bucks for it... Because it's so expensive yet I'm totally broke due to I broke those two of my previous laptops before during usage, so I have to pay it with some sort of money installment system for it for several months, until I reached amount of price of it later on.  It also has 8 GB of RAM, much like my old Dell (except they are pair of DDR4s instead of DDR3s), it has Windows 10 20H2 Home SL installed on it (originally it had 2004 version), it has AMD Athlon 3020e processor, yet with Radeon Graphics, and it has 256 GB of SSD, instead of HDD... FYI, I originally wanted the cheaper alternative to it that has AMD A4 (which is the IdeaPad 130, I think), but none of the computer or laptop stores sell any of those due to those laptops were sold out already, so I decided to buy the V14-ADA with AMD Athlon 3020e instead, which is slightly better option than that.

2. Results_πŸ’»

There are bunch of major difference between this and 3 of my old laptops in terms of opening certain programs. However, there are few of minor flaws that this laptop has, although I can troubleshoot it by simply doing so without any problem... Well, here are the examples of my results of me using it after a month later, as of today:
  • Web browsing on it is more comfortable on it, by opening the Google Chrome or newer Microsoft Edge. Which means, I can open it a lot more quicker than my Acer, Samsung, or even my old Dell laptop.
  • File exploring on it is also just fine, not much I can say about it apart from it only has 256 GB of SSD... Unless I have to put HDD or another SSD on it, since according to somebody else who knows this laptop (including my electric fan fellow lovers), it also has an empty slot for HDD or SSD (or even SSHD), if I'm not mistaken.
  • Adobe Photoshop (latest version) does work reasonably excellent.
  • Playing games (even though I didn't install any games on it yet) will work just flawlessly, especially for 2D games... However, I have no idea for heavy 3D games though. Just remember, there are ton of old games that wouldn't work for Windows 7 or newer anyway, they just simply crash if you tried to open them.
  • Google Earth on it does work just decently. Not too good, but it does it's job just okay.
  • CorelDRAW (latest version) does work just okay... There are some lag on it by the way, but still passable.
  • Playing videos with 720p or higher will work just fine, unlike both of my Acer and Samsung laptops.
  • Editing videos with certain simple video editors do work just fine. There's also a stock video editor that comes with the Windows 10 too, and it does work just okay... Unless the Adobe Premiere is already installed on this laptop, which isn't good for this particular AMD processor that it has IMO.
  • I also installed the BlueStacks on it, then I play Plants vs. Zombies 2 in there too. It does crash the game for few times like my bad Android devices that I used to have, but overall, it does open the aforementioned program just fine after I tweaked it's own settings.
  • Many of the other programs that I can't tell about how well they run this laptop since I never open nor run them quite often, especially for those programs that comes with the Windows 10 themselves.

3. This vs. Dell E4310's flaws_πŸ’»

Exclusive to this one, which is comparing this to my old Dell Latitude E4310 that had it's own ashamed major flaws. Here are list of comparison between this and the flaws of that laptop, right away:
  • While the Dell had an utterly crap battery life (more so than both of my Acer and Samsung, I guess), this doesn't... Which is a good sign for such a new laptop anyway, and it last for about almost 4 hours without any standby (well, depends of my usage with it then).
  • Annoying "date and time resetting" isn't present in this laptop, due to it has it's own battery isn't removable, which is a huge difference between this and that Dell... That also applied with my Acer and Samsung laptops too, even though they did have their own removable batteries.
  • It doesn't crash it's own display graphics driver while I turn it on from hibernate or sleep, unlike that Dell, which occurred most of the time.
  • It doesn't have any static electricity around it too, unless I plug it to the power outlet all the time using it's own adapter... Unlike the Dell which had some of them on one side, especially during I plugged it into the power outlet all the time.
  • Unlike my previous laptops (especially for that Dell), it doesn't seem to overheat that much, depends on my usage of it.
  • It has 3 USB ports just like two of my laptops that I had earlier, unlike the Dell which only had one. The only difference between this and those two aforementioned laptops, which is 2 of it's own ports are USB 3.1 ports, and the other one is USB 2.0 port.
  • Unlike my old Dell which only equipped with standard HD Audio driver that came from Windows themselves (which was bad anyway), this one has Realtek Audio driver on it, which is nice, yet being supported with the Dolby Audio, which is even nicer. My old Acer and Samsung laptops also did have their own Realtek Audio drivers on both of them too, by the way.

4. Flaws_πŸ’»

Only one major flaw that this laptop has, which is connecting it into my Wi-Fi network is kind of tactical.  Every time right after I boot it up, sometimes it won't detect my internet access, and it simply says "No internet, secured" on it... Until I unplug the router for at least 10 seconds, then I plug it back in, then it does work properly.  I have no idea why this problem occurs sometimes, because last time I connected my Dell to my own Wi-Fi network had no problems at all (if I'm not mistaken, and that also applied to my Acer and Samsung laptops too), unless it detected as an unidentified network... I contacted it to one of my fellow electric fan lovers through a chat who also have exact same problem on his newer laptop with Windows 10 like I am, and he has the same intermittent problem on his laptop too... There's also another flaw that this laptop has, which is the brightness on this laptop doesn't work sometimes (probably due to it's being controlled by the AMD Radeon Software settings itself to look like it has fixed brightness, I guess).

5. Conclusion_πŸ’»

Being my first laptop that has a newer AMD processor instead of usual Intel ones like last 3 laptops that I used to have, this is probably the best one that I ever picked so far. I know if my previous laptops had really poor performance, especially during I opened some heavy programs, for instance, the Google Chrome. While 2 of my old laptops that only had 2 GB of RAM didn't perform well due to sometimes they just simply wouldn't respond or just crashed that made me want to smash them both with my hands or tools, this laptop does it's job just well, even with newer AMD Athlon processor that this laptop has. Even though it only has 256 GB of SSD, it doesn't matter too, unless I already done something heavy (such as editing a video that has 30 minutes of video length). The only thing that bothers me is the problem when I connect it into my Wi-Fi network. Although this problem exists sometimes, I can do fix it by simply follow the steps about why this intermittent problem occurs... Overall, this laptop is relatively great for it's look, it's price, and it's own specifications. It's also a great replacement from my previous laptops that I previously own for daily drivers, because again, they were so slow to do any multitasking anyway (except for Dell, which kind of decent until it's own LCD screen's backlight died). Obviously I'll hope this laptop will last WAY longer than my old ones, yet I also hope there's no more for typical errors that occurred on my previous laptops that I used to have, even though I always use it for daily drivers as of nowadays... Anyway, that's it for what I can say of my experience with my brand new Lenovo laptop for at least a month as of today, and as always, thanks for reading this post.