Cookie Munger
Member
Hi,
I just received my Vortex II (just 7 business days after ordering, in Ireland, mad!).
Laptop is really nice - highly recommended. It takes time to get used to the keyboard (still looking for keys) but I actually really like it.
Only reproach I'd do is that I seriously miss the mouse buttons on top of the trackpad that I had on my previous HP laptop - the ones below (on the Vortex) tend to be under by T-Shirt (and I don't really have a belly!). Also, the finger scanner is seriously recessed and right in the middle of these 2 buttons, which makes it hard to use.
Otherwise, it's a fantastic laptop. I got a latest genereation SSD and ATTO indeed confirms 550+ MB/s. Starting the heaviest applications usually just take 1 or 2 seconds.
I have one issue though - it's probably normal but not what I was used to in my old laptop (6 year old Pentium M).
I noticed that when the laptop is not plugged in to the mains, I can only get half of the CPU frequency, e.g. 1.2Ghz instead of 2.4 )and obviously no turbo boost either).
Is this expected? I created a "Full on" power plan with min and max CPU speed to 100% so I'd expect 2.4Ghz but it only stays at 1.2. Is it expected?
So really when it's not plugged in, single-threaded apps actually run about 20% slower than on my 6 year old laptop :-(. When connected though, no contest, it's a beast! Single threaded apps are 2.5 times faster and multithreaded apps are easily 10 times faster than my old laptop, with still some spare capacity!
And the "minimum CPU %" seems to be ignored too - even when plugged in I only get 800Mhz on idle (but it does boost to 3.2Ghz when fully loaded, great!). I don't really care about this (this was mostly for an experiment), but the fact that it peaks at 1.2Ghz when not plugged in really means it's not usable for development (what I do).
Is this expected? Is this a feature of Windows or the bios?
Thanks!
CM
I just received my Vortex II (just 7 business days after ordering, in Ireland, mad!).
Laptop is really nice - highly recommended. It takes time to get used to the keyboard (still looking for keys) but I actually really like it.
Only reproach I'd do is that I seriously miss the mouse buttons on top of the trackpad that I had on my previous HP laptop - the ones below (on the Vortex) tend to be under by T-Shirt (and I don't really have a belly!). Also, the finger scanner is seriously recessed and right in the middle of these 2 buttons, which makes it hard to use.
Otherwise, it's a fantastic laptop. I got a latest genereation SSD and ATTO indeed confirms 550+ MB/s. Starting the heaviest applications usually just take 1 or 2 seconds.
I have one issue though - it's probably normal but not what I was used to in my old laptop (6 year old Pentium M).
I noticed that when the laptop is not plugged in to the mains, I can only get half of the CPU frequency, e.g. 1.2Ghz instead of 2.4 )and obviously no turbo boost either).
Is this expected? I created a "Full on" power plan with min and max CPU speed to 100% so I'd expect 2.4Ghz but it only stays at 1.2. Is it expected?
So really when it's not plugged in, single-threaded apps actually run about 20% slower than on my 6 year old laptop :-(. When connected though, no contest, it's a beast! Single threaded apps are 2.5 times faster and multithreaded apps are easily 10 times faster than my old laptop, with still some spare capacity!
And the "minimum CPU %" seems to be ignored too - even when plugged in I only get 800Mhz on idle (but it does boost to 3.2Ghz when fully loaded, great!). I don't really care about this (this was mostly for an experiment), but the fact that it peaks at 1.2Ghz when not plugged in really means it's not usable for development (what I do).
Is this expected? Is this a feature of Windows or the bios?
Thanks!
CM
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