Thread: A couple of questions - buying a notebook
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marmistrz is offline marmistrz
2015-07-22 , 12:33
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@romu: too expensive, it costs more than 1000 EUR in Poland. My budget is limited by about 3000 PLN which equals to about 725 EUR as of 07/22/15.

Well, I usually use my devices that long, that they are barely fit to be sold

As for now I was thinking about Acer E5-571G i5-5200U/4GB/1000+8 GF840M FHD (producer's code NX.MLCEP.011). It costs 2349 PLN ≈ 568.58 EUR.

Full spec:

Processor: Intel Core i5-5200U (2 cores, 2.2 GHz - 2.7 GHz, 3 MB cache)
Chipset: Intel Broadwell
RAM: 4 GB (SO-DIMM DDR3, 1600 MHz)
Maximum RAM: 16 GB
RAM sockets (total / free): 2/1
Hard drive: 1000 GB SATA 5400 rpm., Express Cache 8 GB
Optical drives: Writer DVD+/-RW DualLayer
Display: Matte, LED, 15,6"
Nominal resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FullHD)
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 840M + Intel HD Graphics 5500
Graphics RAM: 2048 MB GDDR3 (card's internal)
Sound: Internal stereo speakers + Internal microphone + Internal soundcard, compliant with Intel High Definition Audio
Internet camera: 1.0 Mpix
Connectivity: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, LAN 10/100/1000 Mbps, Bluetooth
I/O: 1 x DC-in - 1, 1 x VGA (D-sub), 1x HDMI, 1xRJ-45 (LAN), 2x USB 2.0, 1x USB 3.0, 1x Mini jack, 1xSD card reader
Battery: 6-cell, 5000 mAh, Li-Ion
OS: No OS
Height: 30,3 mm
Width: 382 mm
Depth: 256 mm
Weight: 2,50 kg (w/ battery)
Extra info: Numeric keyboard, Kensington Lock port, multitouch touchpad
Accesories: Power cable, battery
Why? Big SSHD, i5 CPU (should be enough), 4GB RAM (extensible), additional NV graphics card, about 7 hours runtime on WLAN, 13 on idle; quite cheap and quite well supported by Linux, matte 15.6" 1920x1080.

Would it be possible to utilize the SSD area of a SSHD drive using LVM/bcache?
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Last edited by marmistrz; 2015-07-22 at 13:16.