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- #21
Too late - I returned it. Xmas is coming and there will be other deals.
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HP Envy Laptop Skipping MS Account Creation??
- Thread starter Viper69
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- May 29, 2005
FWIW it isn't unusual. My PC in my signature can struggle to just cycle through photos I have in a folder locally on an nvme drive. Probably something to do with file explorer crapping the bed (as it will fail to load thumbnails and such or keep trying to reload them). I'm betting it's more of a windows issue than their laptop.
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- #23
Interesting. It's odd because I don't have this issue with a much older laptop, and that one only has 8 gigs of RAM. The one I returned had 16gigs, eh who knows. I'll just save up for a higher end one, like a core i7.
I guess when I'm thinking delay, I'm thinking more than a seocnd? When I hear the OP say 'stuck' I'm thinking for a couple/few seconds(?). I don't recall it happening enough to remember?? I can spin through a bunch so long as they are internal. But direct from my phone (through 20 Gbps USB-C - no clue how fast the port on the phone is), through an SD card, or HDD, I do occassionally get that.
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I was just doing it while sorting through only about 50 pictures in a folder and sometimes it would fly through and other it would completely hang for seconds but if I skipped to the next picture and went back it would load quickly. I still think that the windows photo app just kinda sucks (using win10 still fwiw) as does windows explorer.
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- #26
By stuck, sometimes the Photos software has to be closed down. Which means it doesn’t remember what picture I was last attempting to view, out of thousands of images that’s a pain. I don’t have this issue with my older laptop I mentioned earlier.
The only “issue” with the older laptop, is the expected slowness of rendering an image when you advance too quickly through images. The new laptop just flat out stopped working in the photos application- weird. Thus I returned it.
Like Janus said, that doesn't scream 'slow hardware' or a hardware problem to me...but oh well.
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- #28
Like Janus said, that doesn't scream 'slow hardware' or a hardware problem to me...but oh well.
But, the comparison to my old laptop vs the new one, using the same images. Plus on my old laptop the images were accessed from the card reader, and the images on the returned, new laptop were on its SSD drive.....It screams- lemon time to return, when the software gets stuck etc
It makes zero sense. Maybe Santa has a sale!
Maybe. But that's also dramatically different than the hardware being too weak to handle something so basic.
What it is... no idea.. but, the hardware being the problem (too slow) isn't hitting home.
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Ah I see what you mean now, true, it could be have been SW issue with photos. I was expecting the same performance or marginally better than my old Yoga.Maybe. But that's also dramatically different than the hardware being too weak to handle something so basic.
What it is... no idea.. but, the hardware being the problem (too slow) isn't hitting home.
