@Dashrender said in Adding 8GB of RAM to the Acer Aspire 7 A715-41G-R7X4:

@hobbit666 said in Adding 8GB of RAM to the Acer Aspire 7 A715-41G-R7X4:

Personally i always like to match RAM -
Size
Make
Speed etc.

For the average person - hell, the average IT person too, does it even matter? It's not like you're likely running a gaming rig you're trying to squeeze every last ounce of power from.

I know Scott is doing video editing - perhaps on this device.. so it might matter to him, a 1% performance increase could be several saved mins on a video...

More than anything, matched sticks means the least potential for problems. THe price on matching was within about $1 of anything else and anything faster would be wasted.

@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:

@penguinwrangler said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:

We need a post that lays out all the reasons why Lenovo is bad. Then we can just link to it. It comes up all the time it seems like.

There is a link to Travis' blog post but his site was down.

https://travisdh1.net/lenovo

Yeah, I got caught in the fun domain renewal and switch dance, gr.

FTA, it doesn't look like it has an NVIDIA or Radeon GPU. As a gamer, it would have to have a decent GPU before I'd consider dropping money on one.

Youtube Video

Sadly booting the system on another similar laptop didn't resolve the clean shutdown. And when I try to boot on a different computer, I get a Partition Table error.

So mounted as Read Only and am in the process of moving the user profile(s) to an external drive.

sudo mount -o remount,ro /dev/sdb1 /media/username/Ubuntu

Is what I had to use.

@thanksajdotcom said:

The only good Acer machines I ever saw were the netbooks. Those things were just awesome!

Their monitors can be 'ok' but not great. Granted Acer doesn't really make them. Neither does anyone else make their own monitors for the most part.

If you would happen to need it, the touch screen is available.

http://www.laptopscreen.com/English/model/Acer/ASPIRE V5-571P-6649/

I have an account with them from when I used to do a lot of repairs and they have pretty decent service, I can usually get ~ $10 off screens since I used to do a good many.

Ran through a few things, and happened upon the uninstall / repair option.
I ran the repair, which subsequently required a reboot (no surprising on a system service).

Currently the system performance has increased back to 'normal'.
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