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Same price as your original laptop when you use code: MPGAMER16 for $25 off.
So - before I pull the trigger, if I am willing to go without a optical drive (or willing to get a cheap USB optical drive), this unit from Newegg is a slightly better machine and will totally eliminate any concerns that I have about storage?
THAT looks nearly perfect for me and solves my concerns about storage. Thank you!
One question: I have used my optical drive exactly once in the last year when I needed to load software for a very old Dymo labelmaker. After the windows 10 forced upgrade, the drivers from the Dymo site did not work, so I uninstalled everything and reinstalled from the CD (which is probably 10+ years old). It updated, and works now. I have to assume that I will have the same issues with the software on the new computer. I would like to keep using this labelmaker.
So - without the optical drive, how can I get this software on the new computer? I use a portable backup (and keep it in my fire proof safe). Does all my software backup to my portable backup and get moved to my new computer when I do a restore? (I know, stupid question. Be gentle.)
You can buy an external optical drive for $10-12 or yank the optical drive from your soon-to-be-decommissioned laptop and use it with a USB-SATA cable. A whole new external drive is probably best ... but I'm a cheapskate.
I just finished building my new system this weekend and breaking it in. Installed a 256SSD with the 1TB. I keep my music on a RAID'ed external USB hard drive. Some of us old timers still have music collections, Bugbear.
Anyway, I installed Windows, MS Office and Irfanview on the SSD... my 2 goto programs. I want those to be quick.
Everything else gets installed to the E drive. I have over 100GB free on C.
And, like Wartrace, boot time and shutdown too... incredibly fast. I used to leave the old computer on 24/7 because it was so slow to boot and wife was working from home a lot. Because it's so fast, we'll be shutting it down.
I'm in the process of replacing a 2TB drive with a new one. Some of the to-be-moved files are music. About 58,000 files including the album art, etc. I think I'll take a nap when that copies across.
So - before I pull the trigger, if I am willing to go without a optical drive (or willing to get a cheap USB optical drive), this unit from Newegg is a slightly better machine and will totally eliminate any concerns that I have about storage?
That laptop is plenty fine. The SSD will hold your operating system, web browser, MS Office, and most programs you run. The 1TB storage should be sufficient for casual users. If you need more storage, you can get a 4TB USB drive for $130 at Costco.
My only reservation is that 8GB of RAM is light these days - I will sometimes use 10GB on my desktop with a lot of browser tabs, iTunes, and some other stuff open, but for a casual user, it should suffice.
Well, now the price has gone up to $649. My bad for not getting right to it, I guess. I called Newegg and they confirmed that they had increased the price, but would do nothing about it.
I want to change my system HDD to SSD.
64 Gb SSD is enough space for OS like Win10 64bit + some programs such openoffice, browsers, e-mail for e.t.c. home use?
Plenty of space. That's all I have but I use other drives for storage.
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