Just got a new laptop delivered and set up-thoughts?

[Jdeere562]

First off-I'm an old man and know little. My first laptop. It seems VERY fast!

Lenovo
CPU: AMD R7-5800H 3.2GHz
RAM: 16GB
Storage: 1TB SSD
GPU: RTX3060
Display: 17.3" FHD IPS
Battery: 4Cell
OS: Windows 11 Home

Bought from our local computer place. Great guy and he delivered it and got it set up.
Makes my PC seem very slow in comparison. Hope I got the specs typed right, very small writing on the box and old eyes.

 

[JMJNet]

Enjoy!!!

 

[Leo99]

Guess the most important question is what do you plan to do with it?

I'd stick with Microsoft's antivirus.

Do you need to connect any wireless ear buds or want to stream it to a larger TV?

 

[Dave9]

Look through the installed programs, make sure there's no bloatware and/or useless OEM stuff that might be uninstalled.

Hard to know what the state of it is, coming from a computer shop. It could have the OEM factory image or something a bit different. Either way I would consider making an OS partition backup so whatever changes you do make, you can revert back to that at any time. There might already be one, sometimes with an OEM it is on a hidden partition. Elaborating on all this is probably beyond the scope of a forum post but a web search will find more info.

Why does your PC seem slow in comparison? If the hardware is very, very old, I could see that, but is it running the OS from an SSD? If not, that's a great upgrade and something modest size (enough to hold the OS and apps for *most* people (besides gamers) isn't expensive these days... great way to breath new life into an aging system and if the HDD is old then it is also a potential point of wear-related failure eventually.

 

[JeffKeryk]

Lenovo is a split machine. And you bought a lot of computer!

 

[2009Caraman]

Bump that Scale resolution up to 125% or even 150%

 

[TheOilWizard]

Wow, an RTX 3060 GPU - are you a gamer or do 3D modeling?

 

[TheOilWizard]

(Duplicate post)

 

[cptbarkey]

That is a very fast and respectable laptop, have always liked Lenovo's myself. Good choice.

 

[Jdeere562]

Guess the most important question is what do you plan to do with it?

Probably just use it as a back-up computer. This PC is getting old and want something around to back it up.

 

[Rand]

you could get a dock and use it as a desktop pretty easy.

Thats a fast Cpu.. and decent GPU(good for laptop GPU)

 

[Hall]

If the text and icon sizes are an issue and you tend to use the laptop on a desk, consider getting an external monitor. Scaling the output isn't terrible but definitely do NOT change the resolution. Anything other than the display's "native" resolution will just make ugly graphics, even text will look fuzzy.

 

[Jdeere562]

Wow, an RTX 3060 GPU - are you a gamer or do 3D modeling?

Not a gamer or anything. Know nothing about the replies all you folks sent. Just a backup for playing on websites like BITOG.

 

[Triple_Se7en]

Nice unit. Would you mind mentioning the price you paid (after taxes)?

I've been window-shopping online for almost a month. I'm a huge Dell fan that only surfs the world-wide web every day.

My current Dell desktop is 13 years old and don't even have any games loaded on it. It's my 10 year-old Toshiba laptop that I want to retire to pasture.

Congrats on your toy.

 

[Jdeere562]

Nice unit. Would you mind mentioning the price you paid (after taxes)?

$1500 with taxes, delivered and set up. He added some simple games and removed some programs that he says I did not need.
He hooked it to wifi and set up my favorites list. I did NOT shop around looking for the cheapest price.

Been doing business with him for years, We like the same stuff, guns, fishing and cars. So we get along great. He has been in this town 40 years now. Discovered he is also on BITOG when I pulled up this website!
So if you see this Howard, jump in and say Hi.

 

[Leo99]

Not a gamer or anything. Know nothing about the replies all you folks sent. Just a backup for playing on websites like BITOG.

There are easy ways to make it your primary and still use your same monitor, keyboard, and mouse.

 

[Hall]

Just a backup for playing on websites like BITOG.

Why ? Why use a modern, powerful machine as your back-up ? Something tells me it's a better machine than your desktop.

 

[Jdeere562]

Why ? Why use a modern, powerful machine as your back-up ? Something tells me it's a better machine than your desktop.

I'm sure it is better than my 10 year old PC.

I know nothing about the specs. Just told him to get me a good one! The one I use is getting old, but it does just fine for my jobs.
I get really bored if I mess something up on this one and can't us it. That happened a couple weeks ago and all I could do was play solitare for a few days

First laptop I have owned or used. Not used to no mouse and other functions. But I know that can be changed. I just wanted a backup.
Will play more with it this weekend.

Besides - I am homebound and don't drive, so I live cheap. Just as well spend a little of the kid's inheritance!

 

[Hall]

I'm sure it is better than my 10 year old PC.

Time to retire that machine. What OS is it running ? That laptop smokes that desktop in every category.

 

[Dave9]

Time to retire that machine. What OS is it running ? That laptop smokes that desktop in every category.

Meh, I'm on a 10 year old PC right now and have zero reason to go use a different one, is plenty fast enough for *most* tasks. Granted, quad core CPU, 16GB memory, SSDs, 4K monitor. I'll get several more years out of it, just not gaming.