discussion Another which laptop to buy question

[Shadowmeph]

That's the model I've been running for a while (sale on through RFD). I've been quite happy with it.

Word(s) of warning when you go to upgrade the memory.... The manual has you disconnecting the battery to do the swap, and it's a good idea as there's a metal shroud to remove that's surrounded by live traces.... if you don't want sparks, follow the manual and disconnect the battery.

The other thing I found with the memory swap is that the memory training takes a ridonkulous amount of time. So much that I initially thought the memory was incompatible. Best bet is to do the switch, turn power on, and walk away for 5 - 10 minutes and when you come back it should be good to go.

https://www.amazon.ca/TEAMGROUP-SODIMM-5600MHz-PC5-44800-Unbuffered/dp/B0B4NW29MV?th=1

That's the "cheap" stick I grabbed to throw onto mine.

I remember when I first put together I think it was my AMD 7600 the memory training took so long I thought that something was wrong was the memory so I sent it back bought new while the old went back but it happened again so I thought it had to be the cpu so I sent that back, repeated the whole thing bought new cpu while the old one went back on the third time I was thought dont tell mew it is the MB , I was so annoyed that I needed a break, so I went for a walk came back and well the system was running then I rebooted, and it did the same thing but a little quicker ended up being some Bios thing I had to turn off so it did not do that every reboot. Are you saying that Intel does the same thing ?
is this an internal battery?

 

[sswilson]

I remember when I first put together I think it was my AMD 7600 the memory training took so long I thought that something was wrong was the memory so I sent it back bought new while the old went back but it happened again so I thought it had to be the cpu so I sent that back, repeated the whole thing bought new cpu while the old one went back on the third time I was thought dont tell mew it is the MB , I was so annoyed that I needed a break, so I went for a walk came back and well the system was running then I rebooted, and it did the same thing but a little quicker ended up being some Bios thing I had to turn off so it did not do that every reboot. Are you saying that Intel does the same thing ?
is this an internal battery?

It's only a one time thing when you first change the memory configuration. AFAIK it's exactly what it sounds like, it's "training" the memory by testing different settings and once it finds the optimum settings that's what it sticks with on boot. OTOH, I think I know what you're talking about WRT the bios... my ASUS board has a setting (called AI something or other) which actively continues trying to fine tune the settings on every boot even after the initial memory training. (I've got that option turned off on my main rig).