Samsung Laptop Slow Startup

This has all the powers of a laptop, but faster startup, much smaller. So happy i got this.

Arrived quickly and was simple to install. Product was recognized by laptop upon startup.

This is a follow up on my original review from 12/3/2022 (I do not see a way to update an existing review). All my findings in the first review are still valid and the laptop has proven itself a reliable workhorse. However I discovered one intermittent issue with the battery life. In most cases the 80% charged battery wold last at least 4-6 hours when watching videos or browsing web on the lowest brightness. Occasionally however it would drop to 2 hours or less (the back of the laptop would also become noticeably warm). I turned on battery saver, made sure to disable any programs and services, except the video player or the browser tab I was using, and the CPU utilization was around 1%. Yet the battery life was unusually short and I could find any reason for that. A reboot (sometimes more than once) would help in most cases but this did not seem right. After some research I found that Windows Fast Startup, enabled by default, may be causing this (no hard evidence though). Anyway, after disabling Fast Startup my battery life on the lowest settings improved to consistent 7-8 hours (again with the initial charge of 80%). If you are unhappy with your battery life search for How to Turn On or Off Fast Startup in the Control Panel. It is simple and I did not notice any adverse effects.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] It a very nice laptop, quick startup and fast response.

I have a home studio and my laptop was getting low on memory and slow when it came to loading and running things chilled etc...

This is the perfect kit for a startup recording setup.

Got this for backups. But then the Samsung T7 I got was so slow I decided to use that for backups instead. This spinning disk drive is actually faster than the Samsung SSD! It's the most utterly stupid thing Samsung ever did with the T7. The T5 was a solid performer, the T7 a dud that can be lapped by a normal old hard drive! Anyway, this works exceptionally well for a bus powered spinning disk. I keep all my projects saved here when travelling, then I make copies to a disk array when back at home base. My only gripe is that I wish it was USB C.

Our Engineers need to work efficiently without the strains of a slow hard drive. The Samsung Pro SSD's have been our go to drive for a number of years now. In benchmark testing and reviews, they still come out on the top of the scale. I have never had one fail and I deploy a lot of them. I have no reason to try another model. Did I mention that the cost is very reasonable as well.

My Samsung TV was very slow to load catalogs and wouldn't always load an app. It was very frustrating, but the Roku Streaming Stick + solved that problem.

I got this for my daughter who is getting into Vinyl. This is great startup for her, since it's easy to use and setup up.