New Acer Aspire laptop.

[DrNomis_44]

Hey Everyone,


I just recently bought myself a brand new Acer Aspire laptop computer as a replacement for my old Dell laptop which died on me, here's a pic of the new laptop:




I've got all my DAW software installed on it and all my midi controllers and the new Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 usb audio interface are working with it, now I'm finally able to get my music mobile again.


Laptop Specs:


CPU: 8th Generation Quad Core Intel Core(TM) i5-8265U CPU @1.60Ghz with Turbo Boost up to 3.9Ghz.

Installed Ram: 8Gb DDR3 (I think that's what it is).

HDD: 250Gb SSD.

OS: Windows 10 64 Bit.


It features WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity as well as an HDMI port and LAN port, has four usb ports, one of them is a usb 3.0, one is a usb 3.1 and the other two are usb 2.0.


I did a quick check in Windows Device Manager and even though the CPU is a Quad Core, it actually shows up as an 8-Core CPU, my guess is that's because each of the four cores can handle two threads simultaneously, my old Dell laptop only had a dual-core i7 CPU in it, so the new laptop's CPU has more processor grunt, just what's needed for music production and live performance.


the advantage of running a 64 bit OS is that it can make use of more memory if it is available, on the other hand, due to the limitations of the 32 bit architecture, a 32 bit OS can only use up to a maximum of 4Gb, why is it better to have an OS that can use more memory than 4Gb?, pretty simple really, when your computer is running the OS, plus any bits of software, and any audio, all of that ends up being loaded, or written into Ram, or Random Access Memory, if the Ram is full and more data needs to be written into it so it can be worked on, the computer needs to copy all the data into a space on the HDD known as the page file, this takes a bit of time to do and chews up resources that the computer would otherwise use for doing it's tasks, more memory means less time writing data into the page file.