Novatech nSpire N1626 upgrade hardrive

Hi iam hoping to buy very soon Novatech nSpire N1626 it comes with a 500gb hard drive i have a 1tb hard drive to hand which i was going to install instead and dual boot linux with windows etc i not sure if you access the hard drive from under the bottom of laptop or is it straight forward pop the keyboard i would think it must be a generic case any ideas would be great or wait till i get the laptop but i like to plan these thing thanks yodie

laptop link http://www.novatech.co.uk/laptop/range/novatechnspiren1626.html

 

Do they only come with an N3150 CPU? The multitasking performance is low end, but okay. The single thread performance is from the P4 era from over a decade ago.

Are you sure this is capable of your intended workloads? Even if you can put the 1TB HDD in there yourself?

 

That's a Clevo W950LU and from the looks of it the keyboard option seems likely:

Spoiler: Clevo W950LU, bottom

Not sure about its power : price ratio, either. You could buy a used system for less and have better performance.

This (moderately ancient) Toshiba Tecra A11, for instance; cheaper, has a much better cpu and even a superior (d)gpu, albeit dated. Also a bit more screen real-estate; 900p vs. 768p (+37% total). Battery life will not be all that, it being a used system, but a brand new one will set you back only about $30. Easier upgrading, too (see review of the same series) and has 2 DDR3 slots, rather than a single one (running dual channel would be ~30% faster):

Spoiler: Tecra A11, bottom

 

HI Thanks for the heads up on the novatech i only need a laptop to cross reference windows when removing customers virus malware etc so not to powerful
so daul boot is a must for me in the end i went for this
will have to fix wifi in grub but thats been solved on linux forum
HP 455 Quad Core Laptop

• AMD A10 7300 Quad core Accelerated Processor
• with AMD Radeon™ Graphics
• 8GB RAM + 1TB
• Webcam + 15.6" LED
• Bluetooth + Ubuntu 12.04

http://www.ebuyer.com/705955-hp-455-quad-core-laptop-l8b56es
thanks once again yodie

 

Nice; that's quite a bit faster, especially the gpu.

 

Good deal. Twice the performance for ~£50 more and effectively 10x better in real world usage.

This system is worth bumping the RAM to 16GB and throwing an SSD in there (OP'd, of course, ~500GB or larger - SanDisk Extreme Pro highly recommended) and the difference between your first choice and this is like riding a donkey to flying a jet.

Especially if you put either the Win10 or the Ubuntu install in a VM and are able to use both at the same time (without rebooting).