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This week my hardware lust flared up, the drooling set off by another expat selling real cheap (as in 30~40% less than similar on EBay):
Lenovo Y700 15.6"UHD 4K Touch i7-6700HQ 3.5GHz 16GBDDR4 256GB GTX960M 4GB
Ultra HD 4K laptop. 3840x2160 resolution. Touch screen, Intel i7 processor, 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD with open slot to add another HD, GTX960M 4GB graphics card. This special edition laptop comes with JBL speakers and red back lit keyboard with adjustable brightness. Includes an external DVD drive. Laptop is less than 4 months old and in new condition, it is not being used + Factory Reset. Comes with original box,
Once I laid eyeballs on the beast, its hide kind of glistening in its brushed-whatever skin .. saw it boot Win10 Pro in a flash ... fell into the brilliant rich colors and crispness of that screen ...
Okay, done deal (so what if I live on soy-milk and cheese another three months ?).
And now, once again, I have that fantasy that I could get all my apps installed on said beast easily as I can back up my disk of the current beast with Win, or AOMEI Pro; if only all the little drivers would update for my current devices in a trice; if only all the whatever bloatware Lenovo added on would just bow out politely.
It doesn't hurt to dream, but, it is an excellent way to get nothing done.
«Differences between Big-Endians, who broke eggs at the larger end, and Little-Endians gave rise to six rebellions: one Emperor lost his life, another his crown. The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. Big-Endians gained favor in Blefuscu.» J. Swift, 'Gulliver's Travels,' 1726CE
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Just wait. Microsoft will eventually release an OS update to make that thing slow. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Just wait. Microsoft will eventually release an OS update to make that thing slow
As well as taking longer and longer to do the updates.
good thing it boots fast - ms will ensure that too is demonstrated very often.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Lenovo offer two solutions to get drivers for your laptop:
- web site as all the others.
- two apps:
-- Lenovo companion.
-- Lenovo system update.
Both apps work perfectly and allow you to choose between critical, recommended and optional updates.
And if you have a windows professional operating system you should have not a lot of bloatware... in my case almost 0 in my thinkpad t460s...
Hope this helps.
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Thanks, Joan, that's good information to have !
«Differences between Big-Endians, who broke eggs at the larger end, and Little-Endians gave rise to six rebellions: one Emperor lost his life, another his crown. The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. Big-Endians gained favor in Blefuscu.» J. Swift, 'Gulliver's Travels,' 1726CE
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You are welcome!
You should know that "system update" is the old version and that "Lenovo companion" is the newest one, so you don't need both of them at the same time.
In both programs you can get a changelog for that proposed update...
It helps a lot to find the right software for your PC.
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Joan M wrote: - two apps:
-- Lenovo companion. <--- bloat ware
-- Lenovo system update <--- bloat ware
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And if you have a windows professional operating system you should have not a lot of bloatware... in my case almost 0 in my thinkpad t460s..
At one office I visit they just picked up few new lenovo's - like almost every laptop manufacturer there's at least half a dozen other manufacturer crapwares installed - even one that had a crapware to ask you to 'register your new lenovo [on the website]' - which did shut up but didn't actually go away even after they registered that new lenovo.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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I had installed:
- candy crush
- march of empires
- and something about minecraft which has been already uninstalled.
Don't remember uninstalling anything else...
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BillWoodruff wrote: 15.6"UHD 4K Touch
So a touch-screen display of 15", at that resolution, means that touching the screen with the very tip of your pinky covers an area of what, 200x200 pixels?
Suddenly those 256x256 pixels icons don't seem so ridiculous anymore...
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BillWoodruff wrote: 3840x2160...15.6"
I have a Dell Precision M3800 with these specs and discovered, at that resolution, the text is unreadably small! I had to change the text size to 125% and the screen resolution to 2048x1152 so I didn't need a microscope. 
That, and 2 large 1920x1080 monitors as my main displays, I shove over app that I'm not using onto the laptop screen. Blazing fast machine though, with the 16GB RAM and SSD's. And quiet too, hardly ever hear the fan engage, except when W10 is updating something and hogging 25%+ of the CPU. 
Why "Windows Driver Foundation" takes up 6% when idle, and 25% or more when doing whatever it's doing, is annoying. When I was running W7, the average CPU was 2%.
Sorry, didn't mean to turn this into a W10 rant.
Marc
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Do cathedrals use so many arches and cantilevers because in God they trussed?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Perh-apse they do - you couldn't vault them for it though, that would be nave.
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That statement trancepts all boundaries of good taste.
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Aisle have to think about that.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I suggest we altar this thread.
/ravi
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Choir you suggesting that?
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Some folks might get a little cross when they read it.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Ah, well, that's not up to hymn, some people just don't see things as all rosary.
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Are you suggesting we censer this? I'm incensed!
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Sorry, didn't mean to robe you the wrong way. 
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It's ok, we know it's hard to break the habit.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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You're taking a real shrine to this, aren't you?
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I am, I do hope it doesn't cause mass hysteria.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Sadly, I don't think we have a prayer.
/ravi
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