05-22-2015, 02:42 PM
Better. It's an AMD Kaveri FX-7600P machine with a secondary AMD Radeon R9 M280X CPU for Enduro mode (AMD's take on Optimus). I just beefed it up with 8GB of 2133Mhz RAM. Now I am trying to find out if the 280 is perched on a MxM (aka Mobile PCIe) slot so I can upgrade it to a M290x (my original plan was to get an MSI GX60-5CD which had a FX-7600P and a R9-M290X dGPU, but MSI won't sell that model in Malaysia and then quickly discontinued it in markets where it does sell the model), and replace the hard disk with a faster WD Black 7200rpm disk (currently it has a Hitachi 5400rpm, and I dislike Hitachi, latest incident owing to a new server at my workplace suffering hard drive failure just two days after deploying. Unsurprisingly the hard drives were Hitachi. But thankfully, it was set up in RAID-5 and the data was recovered the moment the faulty disks were swapped out (6 disks, two died. Thankfully the two weren't adjacent or the data would've been done for), but yeah, it added to my already low view of Hitachi disks.
And no, I don't know why a reliability-oriented company like IBM would be sourcing their drives from Hitachi, you'd think they'd have caught on to Hitachi's questionable QC by now.
As for Violette III, I'm going to retire her for a few months while I work out what to do with her. Her keyboard needs replacing as some of the keys have to be practically smashed on to get it to register now. After that I may consider turning her into a Linux laptop as an experiment.
And no, I don't know why a reliability-oriented company like IBM would be sourcing their drives from Hitachi, you'd think they'd have caught on to Hitachi's questionable QC by now.
As for Violette III, I'm going to retire her for a few months while I work out what to do with her. Her keyboard needs replacing as some of the keys have to be practically smashed on to get it to register now. After that I may consider turning her into a Linux laptop as an experiment.
The Best Medicine > Magic. Because SCIENCE! can prove the former.