Troncoso
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I was just joking. I thought that was obvious.
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I was just joking. I thought that was obvious.
So the Lenovo ThinkPad L540 turned up today. It's come all the way from Shanghai. Took 8 days to build and 3 to deliver, so that's less than 2 weeks from pressing the order button to having it in my hands which is pretty good.
This laptop is more widely travelled than me! As you can see from my UPS shipping statuses, it's been about halfway across the world.
Spec in my signature.
I replaced the stock 500GB HDD with a 1TB Seagate SSHD. I'm currently using the recovery drive I made to put the Lenovo Windows 8 onto the SSHD. You can see how easy it is disassemble the laptop and get to the HDD and RAM. This is why I like ThinkPads. :good:
I am in the process of writing a full review on this laptop which will be posted on the ThinkPad Forums in due time.
First impressions of this machine are great! Keyboard feels excellent, I like the TrackPoint, I like the 1080p screen. So far, so good! :good:
This is the third ThinkPad I've owned. The other two were older IBM ones made before Lenovo bought them.
This laptop is more widely travelled than me! As you can see from my UPS shipping statuses, it's been about halfway across the world.
Spec in my signature.
I replaced the stock 500GB HDD with a 1TB Seagate SSHD. I'm currently using the recovery drive I made to put the Lenovo Windows 8 onto the SSHD. You can see how easy it is disassemble the laptop and get to the HDD and RAM. This is why I like ThinkPads. :good:
I am in the process of writing a full review on this laptop which will be posted on the ThinkPad Forums in due time.
First impressions of this machine are great! Keyboard feels excellent, I like the TrackPoint, I like the 1080p screen. So far, so good! :good:
This is the third ThinkPad I've owned. The other two were older IBM ones made before Lenovo bought them.
S.T.A.R.S.
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Hey Spirit just to let you know that I still did not open my new laptop I got almost 2 months ago.
Seriously lol.Didn't have time to do it.I have work over my head here.
Seriously lol.Didn't have time to do it.I have work over my head here.
If its anything like my HP laptop,It was very hard to come across an ISO of Windows 8 OEM..i couldn't just use a regular Windows 8 ISO then use the serial key that was built into the laptops bios..it wouldn't work.
Thankfully i was able to get a hold of a OEM ISO.
I did it so it was still pre-activated by Lenovo and so that I had all of the correct drivers preinstalled - and the Lenovo software which is quite useful (eg the fingerprint stuff and the 'airbag' protection). There wasn't too much bloat at all - just Pokki and Norton and some other stuff which I removed.
It was a fresh install with the recovery media. You can't make recovery DVDs now with Windows 8, so I made a 'recovery USB drive' instead which seems to work well but took a while to restore. I was a little annoyed that the user manual said I needed an 8GB drive and then when I came to do it it said I needed a 16GB drive.
Yeah that was also another problem, but I do have a Windows 8 Pro disc I could have used (with a key) or I could have gotten Windows 8.1 Pro from school.
Going to use the Windows Store to upgrade this machine to 8.1 today.
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Thanatos
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speedx77x
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Hmph the only case Noctua Fans will ever match....
claptonman
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That is odd. All the computers I've reimaged with win8 and used the key from the BIOS worked just fine.
salvage-this
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AlienMenace
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That is very, very nice.
FuryRosewood
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Yep, and its another shot in the foot for M$ allowing OEMs to do that...makes it a pain to get a machine restaged at work while keeping the licensing key intact...
Okedokey
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salvage-this
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Good to see someone got it figured out. Thanks.
ThinkPad L540. 
I took these photos for a review which I am writing on this laptop but I've not had the chance to write anything on it for weeks now.
I had to take some these are quite high ISO (800) so there may be some grain on some of them. Retaking some of these tomorrow earlier in the day and with a flashgun.
I also posted a video on YouTube of Windows 8.1 Pro booting, shutting down and resuming from sleep with the Seagate 1TB SSHD which is installed in this laptop. You can see the video below:
[UT]ZMe_-SqreHI[/UT]
Skip to 0:36 to see the boot.
My first install of 8.1 on this machine was a clone from the HDD to the SSHD and didn't work well. I did a fresh install of 8.1 Pro which I got from school last weekend and now it's a lot quicker. You have to do a lot of restarts and get Windows to boot quickly since the SSHD firmware 'learns' which files to cache to boot Windows quickly.
**EDIT: Pics temporarily removed whilst I transfer them to a new Flickr account.**
I took these photos for a review which I am writing on this laptop but I've not had the chance to write anything on it for weeks now.
I had to take some these are quite high ISO (800) so there may be some grain on some of them. Retaking some of these tomorrow earlier in the day and with a flashgun.
I also posted a video on YouTube of Windows 8.1 Pro booting, shutting down and resuming from sleep with the Seagate 1TB SSHD which is installed in this laptop. You can see the video below:
[UT]ZMe_-SqreHI[/UT]
Skip to 0:36 to see the boot.
My first install of 8.1 on this machine was a clone from the HDD to the SSHD and didn't work well. I did a fresh install of 8.1 Pro which I got from school last weekend and now it's a lot quicker. You have to do a lot of restarts and get Windows to boot quickly since the SSHD firmware 'learns' which files to cache to boot Windows quickly.
**EDIT: Pics temporarily removed whilst I transfer them to a new Flickr account.**
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