New Laptop! need some help

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So a guy came into one of the stores today looking to sell a laptop.

Dell Latitude E6510
What I'm finding through rightclicking properties:
Win 7 Pro. 64-bit
i5 2.4 GHz
3 GB RAM. (The guy says its 4 but the computer uses 1 as it is. Idk. Properties is showing 3.)
4 USB 2.0 ports. Which is perfect.
And computer properties is showing 232 Gb HDD (Not sure about the rmp)
$200(my komplete 8 ultimate fund just keeps taking hit after hit :().

Yeah. I know it's not the worlds best laptop. But my others are Vista. And were higher priced.

I was wondering:
how to factory restore this thing?
what it should be able to accomplish in terms of laptop production?
if any upgrades can or need to be made to this thing?
AND some cleaning tips for it and the screen (and to rid it of the smell of smoke) :o
 
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I think you mean RPM. =P and 7200rpm on a laptop drive? Nice. If you can, install a programme called Speccy. It will give you all the info you need on what is inside your computer. You can get rid of it after. It should tell you exactly how much RAM you have and how much is being used. 3GB sounds like a weird number for a laptop, as I've never known a laptop to be triple channel.

You'll need a Windows 7 disk to factory restore, or you can make a backup disk and choose what programmes and things you want to go onto the disk specifically. There's an off-chance that there might be an i386 folder somewhere with the original "disk" inside it. I know stock XP machines were often made this way, so the stores didn't have to send an actual XP disk with the computer.

Cleaning the screen, just use a damp cloth, not dripping water all over... and of course make sure it is turned off when you do this anyways. =P Not sure about getting rid of the smell of smoke other than keeping some air freshener handy. =P

In all, it sounds like a good machine and should easily be capable of some portable recording. If there is room [which there often isn't in laptops], you could add another hard drive. 250GB one you have now [232 is what Windows calculates it as. Google up on Gigabytes vs Gibibytes] seems like a fair amount if this isn't your main computer, but if it is, I'd at least double that [as well as the 2nd drive if it can fit].
 
:facepalm: I made a typo on rpm. Twice.


Awesome ill check out speccy. I've got the restoration sorted out as well now.
It was fresh so I just decrapified it and created a backup disc.
Eventually ill be getting an ext. Harddrive.
The RAM is certainly a concern. I'm looking to upgrade to 8. Which I believe is possible on it. Ill leave the cpu alone though. Its seems fine.
 
kidkage said:
:facepalm: I made a typo on rpm. Twice.


Awesome ill check out speccy. I've got the restoration sorted out as well now.
It was fresh so I just decrapified it and created a backup disc.
Eventually ill be getting an ext. Harddrive.
The RAM is certainly a concern. I'm looking to upgrade to 8. Which I believe is possible on it. Ill leave the cpu alone though. Its seems fine.
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It should be good to go to 8, but I really doubt you'll need that much at all. Speccy is free to download btw, it's literally just to check out all the specs of your machine. Right down to stuff that is even too nerdy for me. =P
Your CPU should definitely be fine. It's an i5 and clocked at 2.4GHz. Should give you plenty. I have an i5 in my desktop, stock freq 2.8GHz, but I OC'd it to 3.8GHz. Can't really do much like that with laptops though. Cooling becomes a problem.

Good that you managed to start over and make the recovery disk. I still don't have a recovery disk for my machine. >.< Might use my flash drive to create a backup for now, until I can get some dual-layer DVDs.
 
somegeezer said:
It should be good to go to 8, but I really doubt you'll need that much at all. Speccy is free to download btw, it's literally just to check out all the specs of your machine. Right down to stuff that is even too nerdy for me. =P
Your CPU should definitely be fine. It's an i5 and clocked at 2.4GHz. Should give you plenty. I have an i5 in my desktop, stock freq 2.8GHz, but I OC'd it to 3.8GHz. Can't really do much like that with laptops though. Cooling becomes a problem.

Good that you managed to start over and make the recovery disk. I still don't have a recovery disk for my machine. >.< Might use my flash drive to create a backup for now, until I can get some dual-layer DVDs.
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Oh yeah, I had downloaded speccy right after that reply :p

Good to know that the i5 is good to go

I'm currently restoring some other laptops. And I have discovered something good about vista!
Full factory restore is built in and takes an hour or so.
XP had those discs that took ages, and 7 has nothing. Well you know, besides making discs.

Although, I believe my HP DAW with 7 has a built in factory restore thing. Wonder why it has it and the others do not.
 
kidkage said:
Oh yeah, I had downloaded speccy right after that reply :p

Good to know that the i5 is good to go

I'm currently restoring some other laptops. And I have discovered something good about vista!
Full factory restore is built in and takes an hour or so.
XP had those discs that took ages, and 7 has nothing. Well you know, besides making discs.

Although, I believe my HP DAW with 7 has a built in factory restore thing. Wonder why it has it and the others do not.
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Factory reset is usually put in by whoever you buy the computer from. Mine has none because I bought each piece and put it together myself, rather than getting something prebuilt. I'm sure with prebuilt Windows 7, there will still be something to reset back. If you do have the disks, you shouldn't have to worry about that at all though.
 
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