The seller was some dude on Amazon, but both machines were new in box and were purchased in 2018 and 2019. The model is 15-br095ms for what it’s worth. It’s a Microsoft signature edition laptop so “less” bloat than other machines. Basically it didn’t have McAfee or norton.

At least for that line of HP machines, you had a 768p panel and a 1080p panel. Both are 1080p.

Also the 11th gen i5 is weird. Idk if mine was a dud or they all ran like this but mine was super power hungry. 33wh capacity and I got like 3 hours of battery life. When the battery was new (40wh) it was like 4-5 hours if I babied it. When I swapped in a new Ryzen motherboard, it ran cooler and more efficiently. I get 4 hours of battery life if I do normal stuff and it can run fanless. And yes I’ve repasted it when it had an i5.

For context, that old pavilion 15br laptop I was talking about had a motherboard replacement and I put a 15-br158cl motherboard in it so an 8th gen i7 and a Radeon 530. Not a particularly efficient gpu and an old cpu. It gets the same battery life. It’s got 2 drives, an older battery and it still beats the newer one. I could get that old i7 to sip power. I can’t get the new one to do that.

The keyboard doesn’t really flex on my sister’s laptop but good God it’s awful to type on. It’s weirdly mushy. Idk if her laptop is defective or if it’s something else. The keyboard is clean but compared to both of my pavilion laptops, it feels like my old dell multimedia keyboard in terms of mush. And yeah they trackpad is awful. My friend had a w530 and it was about the same honestly. But that was a then 6 year old laptop.

Fwiw the 11th gen i5 is actually garbage. Cpu is strong and the igpu has no business being as good as it is, but it is not power efficient at all at lower tdp. I cannot for the life of me get my old 11th gen i5 laptop to run any lower than like 1.8 GHz or something ridiculous. Just babying a laptop that’s less than a year old gets me maybe 3 hrs of battery life. It’s had really bad degradation, with 80% capacity left on a 40 wh battery but swapping in a Ryzen motherboard got me another hour of battery life. Also weird ass stutters, holy shit it’s bad. If I typed too fast, my computer would lock up entirely. It’s just a thing that it did.

This is me on monkeytype when it locked up one day.

Might depend on who Lenovo used for the displays. Either the specs are different than listed or it was modded.

My own example is HP, I have 2 identical laptops (same model and seller). One has a 100% sRGB panel and the other has a 60% sRGB panel.

The 100% sRGB panel is LG and the 60% sRGB panel is Innolux.

Also maybe battery capacity over time? Istg batteries have way more degradation now than before.

Edited for clarity.

Edit 2: while some HP laptops might have had different color accuracy display options for the same model, this one is just straight 768p or 1080p and nothing else. The site says 45% NTSC but my own experience shows they had some good panels and it was just luck of the draw. Fwiw the PC is a HP pavilion x360 15-br095ms. It had an i5-7200u, Radeon 530 2GB DDR3, 8 gb of ddr4 and a 128 gb m.2 sata ssd. It’s been motherboard swapped with an 8th gen i7 version, same gpu on the new board and has 24 gb of ram. I’m using a cs900 240 gb 2.5 in ssd for now. I plan on getting a better nvme drive for it eventually but I have none on hand that i could use.

My sister has a T580 with the 7th gen i5-7200u. Full tilt it runs at 60C after a repaste. My own pavilion x360 with the same i5 runs close to 90C. Let’s not talk about the 8th gen i7 version of said x360.

The 8th gen i5 and i7 CPUs just run really hot.

As for build quality, it’s fine. It’s no r500, but it’s built pretty well. Her laptop has been dropped a few times and the only issue it has is a fucked USB c power port (my only gripe is hard to replace USB ports).

I had a friend who was a compsci minor who did almost the entirety of said minor on a really old chromebook. They did everything on a basic text editor. You would be surprised

Xeon mobile is something else entirely. It’s a laptop chip. Something like this

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/213796/intel-xeon-w11955m-processor-24m-cache-2-60-ghz/specifications.html

Most modern laptops can do 64 gb of ddr4. It’s expensive but doable. Like most U series CPUs are limited at 64 gb. Something with a xeon mobile chip will probably see a lot more.

Certain programs can do multithreaded downloads on ftp servers. Winscp is one that can do it. Idk about other software

The trick is you get the stream url from vlc, then load it up in a browser to download it fully.

I did see that and I need to do some testing on TF2 to see how much performance I gained.

And this is when you get your advisor to get you in

Wait y’all are getting updates?

it wasn’t faked, but it was very much a ship.of Theseus pregnancy test. They replaced the microcontroller with one they could program (it might have been the reprogrammable version of the same microcontroller. And the screen was replaced.

In Arabic, shrimp are called sea locusts and are technically halal. (Depends on what school you follow)

Also reliability, hbm2 cards seem to have a higher rate of dying

Mine was wiping my vps while backing it up. Luckily for me I only lost some files that I could easily replace.

But this isn’t talking about windows or doors, this is more like, “the police needs a special key to enter everyone’s house”

For the love of all things holy, can we stop using mediatek for SOCs? Getting any sort of custom rom running on a mediatek soc is a hellscape.

I got a great horned owl on accident. It was my paper crinkling. First time I used sound ID.

thats coach z, small sad is “trogdor strikes again”