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Astynax
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Feb-16-21, 09:02 AM (EST) |
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1. "RE: PC parts"
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>In other news, I am apparently still capable of upgrading the RAM in a >laptop without murdering it, which pleases me on several levels. But >sweet mother of pearl, our friends at Lenovo made it harder to >do that to a Legion 5 than it needed to be. >I had this experience with my ASUS ROG recently (sidenote: who makes a gaming laptop, even one a couple gen old, with only 8 GB of RAM? I only use the thing for work these days and that still wasn't enough) and it made me very much miss the old Dell business laptops that made RAM and HD upgrades a breeze.
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Gryphon
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Feb-16-21, 01:33 PM (EST) |
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2. "RE: PC parts"
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>I had this experience with my ASUS ROG recently (sidenote: who makes a >gaming laptop, even one a couple gen old, with only 8 GB of RAM? I >only use the thing for work these days and that still wasn't enough) >and it made me very much miss the old Dell business laptops that made >RAM and HD upgrades a breeze.Hell, Lenovo themselves used to know how to do this. My trusty old ThinkPad W510, which I bought from the UMaine gear shop when I went back in 2010, has a little door on the bottom. Undo one screw, pop the door open, hey presto, there's the RAM. Replacing the keyboard was dead easy, too, because it was a modular part that came off from the top. By comparison, the Legion 5 doesn't even have a detachable battery. I grant you that ThinkPad and Legion are separate product lines with different specializations these days (ThinkPads are for Business and Legions are for Gaming, apparently, because nobody ever does both things with one computer?), but even that distinction is a little weird, because who is stereotypically more likely to want to work on their own computers: business people or gamers? I'm thinking not business people. --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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DaemeonX
Member since Aug-3-08
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Mar-10-21, 12:28 PM (EST) |
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4. "RE: PC parts"
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>Hell, Lenovo themselves used to know how to do this. My trusty old >ThinkPad W510, which I bought from the UMaine gear shop when I went >back in 2010, has a little door on the bottom. Undo one screw, pop the >door open, hey presto, there's the RAM. Replacing the keyboard was >dead easy, too, because it was a modular part that came off from the >top. By comparison, the Legion 5 doesn't even have a detachable >battery. The newer HP laptops have the expansion ram slots above the mother board. Which means instead of taking the back cover off and slotting the ram in... you have to go in from back and remove some screws, then remove the keyboard and remove some screws, then remove some ribbon cables, then take off the plate below the keyboard, and then you can put your extra ram in place, and do everything in reverse. 1.5 to 2 hours worth of work which should take 15 minutes max. They really don't like techs working on their shit anymore. DaemeonX |
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