Wasteful kids these days, there're non-internet connected children in Africa!!!!
Anyways, it was a Samsung QX410 with i5 450m, 4GB of DDR3, GeForce 300m or some mobile GPU like that, 1366x768 screen, and some sort of 2.5" Samsung HDD. It shipped with Windows 7 but the license key was worn away. No power supply, battery drained.
Took a chance and bought a $10 power supply off ebay, swap in an old 120GB SSD, and.....
IT WORKS.
Install Windows 10 from USB and it boot, it runs fine, not slow either. The touch pad driver from Windows were junk and would stuck to the right side, but google said there's a driver that works, but you have to download it from.... HP (it is a Samsung laptop) and manually roll back from Device Manager. Or you can just use a USB mouse.
Overall it feels ok build quality wise, it is not as good as Dell Precision but it is on par with a Lenovo Ideapad or a HP my wife's work place gave out. The CPU from that generation runs HOT. It idles at 55-65C and when running it can reach 80C. I saw that this gen of i5 can go up to 90C peak temperature.
Youtube plays fine with about 20-40% CPU utilization, 5GHz wifi seems to work well too. It would be useful for zoom, youtube, web browsing, etc.
Anyways, it was a Samsung QX410 with i5 450m, 4GB of DDR3, GeForce 300m or some mobile GPU like that, 1366x768 screen, and some sort of 2.5" Samsung HDD. It shipped with Windows 7 but the license key was worn away. No power supply, battery drained.
Took a chance and bought a $10 power supply off ebay, swap in an old 120GB SSD, and.....
IT WORKS.
Install Windows 10 from USB and it boot, it runs fine, not slow either. The touch pad driver from Windows were junk and would stuck to the right side, but google said there's a driver that works, but you have to download it from.... HP (it is a Samsung laptop) and manually roll back from Device Manager. Or you can just use a USB mouse.
Overall it feels ok build quality wise, it is not as good as Dell Precision but it is on par with a Lenovo Ideapad or a HP my wife's work place gave out. The CPU from that generation runs HOT. It idles at 55-65C and when running it can reach 80C. I saw that this gen of i5 can go up to 90C peak temperature.
Youtube plays fine with about 20-40% CPU utilization, 5GHz wifi seems to work well too. It would be useful for zoom, youtube, web browsing, etc.