how is the boot time ?
1876306
I'm not sure what a good boot time or a bad boot time is as I live in the country and do not have a very high internet speed. For me though, I think it works great. Its small but gets the job done. Hope this helps.
1613910
Very little noise and you probably won't notice if unless the room is quite. Plus you can as many others do and swap-out the hard drive and install a solid state drive and zero noise and 3 to 4 sec boot times (and that is from a cold start!) -- that also gives you lightening fast processing. Kind of turbo charging your machine.
845345
I used this CPU to replace my Pentium D 2.8GHz CPU. My desktop boots faster roughly by about 15 seconds. Also overall its is more responsive. Though its not earth shattering but that was a welcome change to this older desktop. Is it fast? Not very fast but I am happy with this cheap upgrade. Also it depends on which processor you are comparing to.
1266761
3-4 hours but I think it depends on your computer settings. I like a bright screen so I think I get less time.
1466418
This laptop has a 24 GB SSD built in to give you a very quick boot..mine takes 5 - 7 seconds to boot.. 7-10 mins is really a long time..
1749015
Boot is slow, mostly because of the kind of memory the OS is stored on. Components (memory & cpu) cannot be upgraded (case is very difficult to open) but straight out of the box it isn't bad on speed. Where are you having speed problems?
864952
Battery life is great! I get about 3+ hours of basic use (browsing, etc) and about 1.75-2 hours using photoshop, light gaming, etc. if you manually specify most programs to use the intel graphics it lasts quite a while more than the nvidia graphics, but you'll always trade power for speed. Overall it's a great setup and I've thoroughly enjoyed mine for both work (photographer) and play (gamer).
319369
Sorry to be answering so late.The only thing I changed, that I remember is the boot order. I made sure it looked for the disk first. I also found that the company helped, they even responded with an email. Hope this helped.
762024
Yes, I am currently using it in my laptop. Much faster boot up times. I love it.
792976
Yes, my boot times ran just under a minute, now it takes around 10 seconds to the sign in screen. Photoshop files almost POP up on the screen and even huge .psd files can be modified on the fly with no lag. SAWEET!!
2202054
Mine was 3204. It so old that it wouldn't boot so I had to update the bios through the USB port for bios flashing. It was quite easy to do.
1195707
I usually get about 2 hours or less of intensive gaming out of it (Crysis 3 or heavily modded Skyrim on ultra settings, for example). With just web browsing or simple applications I get about 5 hours of continuous use. I can run one charge an entire day as a student by simply making it sleep when I'm not using it. The wake up time is only a couple seconds, but it only takes 5 seconds to boot up anyway so I usually just shut it down if I won't use it for a couple hours.
1720566
I say for me it is about 6 hours. I am a student do I could use it long. Great computer .
800967
Did you enable the Fast Start? If you disabled some power features it requires Fast Start to be turned off. 3 second boot refers to idle/stand by not from OFF.
1113701
For me it's about an hour, maybe a little longer on gaming mode. About 2hr and 15 min on balanced mode, just depends on what you are running, brightness etc. It has never died on me when I needed it though.
1837746
yes, you can if you choose. you'd just have to set the boot order correctly in the BIOS
1720703
There is no actual way for me to check and see if the boost has kicked in, but I can definitely say that even when I have multiple applications, browsers and tasks running in the background, the computer seems to be operating pretty fast. It never freezes up, nor does it take more than 2-3 secs to open up multiple applications or move from application to another. I can honestly say that for the price I paid (refurbished for $365 with tax & everything); this is the best buy thus far...