{"id":7962,"date":"2018-07-11T23:37:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T06:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=7962"},"modified":"2018-07-11T23:37:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T06:37:52","slug":"laptop-challenges-and-triumphs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=7962","title":{"rendered":"Laptop Challenges and Triumphs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This new laptop has some challenges<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Was a pain getting<\/li>\n<li>Can&#8217;t fit a 9mm hard drive (has to be 7mm and smaller)<\/li>\n<li>I thought it had bluetooth<\/li>\n<li>While docked the USB3 didn&#8217;t seem to work (granted I didn&#8217;t wait long or look at the bios)<\/li>\n<li>Not as light as expected<\/li>\n<li>Rubber bumber coming off on the monitor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But it has some Triumphs<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fast for an older laptop<\/li>\n<li>Boots wicked fast<\/li>\n<li>Wifi is AC<\/li>\n<li>Uses existing docking stations<\/li>\n<li>Display is 1080P<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Went to Fry&#8217;s to try and buy a 2TB Hard drive for this laptop, weird that they said they don&#8217;t and never did offer rain checks for sales.\u00a0 Liar.<\/p>\n<p>I ordered a 2TB hard drive from Amazon instead, hoping it will improve things capacity wise.\u00a0 I purchased a bluetooth mouse from Frys though, I think I will use it with my work laptop and move the wireless mouse from it to this one.\u00a0 Eyeing a 500GB mSata disk in the future too.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all the software I want is on it.<\/p>\n<p>Went around Renton Tech today.\u00a0 Of course had to play with my new toy.<\/p>\n<p>Weight coming along<\/p>\n<p>Weight: 293.4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new laptop has some challenges Was a pain getting Can&#8217;t fit a 9mm hard drive (has to be 7mm and smaller) I thought it had bluetooth While docked the USB3 didn&#8217;t seem to work (granted I didn&#8217;t wait long &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=7962\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-toys","category-technical","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7963,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7962\/revisions\/7963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}