Big news! New laptop!

Well although this is not releated to development, I've bought a new PC, finally! I've been working hard this year with kids at soccer team, and with my saves, I've expended them on this nice laptop. The laptop is a Lenovo G510 with this specifications:
  • Processor: Intel Core i7 - 4702 MQ
  • RAM Memory: 4GB DDR3 (One slot free)
  • Graphics: AMD Radeon r7 M265
  • Hard Drive: 500 GB
  • Price: 599 Euros (820 dollar, 490 pounds, 49499 ruppies)


Although you may think that with this laptop everything will be faster, you will have to wait a bit. My old PC with all the files and configurations is disconnected at the moment, and pending of a formatting. I shall restore the backup I made, and that is a huge amount of data... Apart from that I'm asking you if you can DONATE to me, to buy the second slot of RAM to upgrade to 8 GB and then be a perfect PC for Android compiling. I can tell you that all my saves + donation money went to this PC and now I'm on 0, so I can't buy anything.

Apart from that I've to inform myself if upgrading memory RAM and changing it's OS to a Linux distribution will broke Lenovo warranty. If so, I must re-consider that and start working 2-3 months after I'm sure everything is working as expected. Apart from that Windows 8.1 need to be "hacked" to allow the installation of other OS on the machine.


Anyway, if I recieve enough donations, I'll "break" the warranty and improve my laptop a bit more. Alhtough it seems silly to increase the RAM on a PC I've just bought, the offer of this laptop was SO good that I could not pass it, even thouhg buying it with 4 GB of RAM.

As said, there is no progress, as old PC is disconnected, and I'll take this weekend to transfare all the files I need... probably more :( Apart from that, I'm the happiest person of the world! Thanks you all, there is a piece of this laptop that is yours! (Donation people)

Comments

  1. Unknown3 April 2014 at 11:00

    Yeah! good bought biel ;)
    when update cm9 sgy?

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    1. bieltv.33 April 2014 at 11:09

      I'll write just a copy paste from my entry:

      "As said, there is no progress, as old PC is disconnected"

      As you may guess, I don't know when.

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    2. Unknown3 April 2014 at 11:16

      thank you for cm waited for a very long time and not much left to complete. I'd be surprised if even this week managed to do something :) (although I know it may not possible, but worth the wait) :)

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  2. Anonymous3 April 2014 at 11:53

    Congrats Biel.

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  3. Anonymous3 April 2014 at 12:00

    Si la ranura de la RAM es accesible sin abrir la laptop no creo que tengas problemas, también para lo del sistema operativo podrías hacer una imagen del disco duro y restaurarla en un futuro si llegaras a tener problemas (si es que no trae la partición de recuperación y la aplicación para hacer los DVD de restauración). FELICIDADES! Y por favor los que están pregunte y pregunte por avances en cm9 sepan que el desarrollo no es nada fácil, si fuera así todos los teléfonos tendrían kitkat ahorita.

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    1. bieltv.33 April 2014 at 14:19

      Tengo que abrir la PC para cambiar la ram y sacar una pegatina lenovo para sacar un tonrillo... asi que me huele que no... por el software no hya problema, no se pierde instalando ubunut ^^

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  4. Anonymous3 April 2014 at 12:09

    Congratulation !!
    why not just install your linux distro on external drive and keep warranty ?

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    1. bieltv.33 April 2014 at 14:19

      Never though about it, but I have not an external drive, and as said no money neither :P

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  5. Anonymous3 April 2014 at 12:23

    Wow Congratulations! :D

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  6. Anonymous3 April 2014 at 12:53

    Biel,no te era mejor una pc de torre?
    Digo por la relacion potencia precio,siempre te será,mejor.
    Esta es solo mi opinión personal.
    Tambien depende de los usos que le des aparte del desarrollo.
    Felicidades y muchas gracias por tu trabajo.

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    1. bieltv.33 April 2014 at 14:21

      Si, una PC de torre es mejor, pero neceistaré una PC potente para el año que viene (Universidad) y para trabajos potentes de bachillerato, como mi tdr, donde desarollaremos una mano biónica i simulacion en 3D, asi que me iba mejor un portátil.

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  7. Unknown3 April 2014 at 13:47

    Congrats

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  8. Anonymous3 April 2014 at 13:47

    helal olsun biela cm9 kamooonnnnn :)

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  9. Anonymous3 April 2014 at 14:06

    ' biz o kadar fakirdik ki developer'imizin android compile edecek bilgisayarı bile yoktu'.

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  10. Anonymous3 April 2014 at 14:31

    we appreciate your works biel!

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  11. DAVI3 April 2014 at 16:15

    Maybe you can finish the cm7 now :D

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  12. Anonymous3 April 2014 at 16:16

    Felicitaciones biel !!! super merecida esa laptop, que la disfrutes!!

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  13. Yael3 April 2014 at 17:01

    Felicitaciones Biel. Bien merecido :)

    Yo no he donado todavia pero cdo done plata me adueño del alt+ctrl+suprimir de la lapto :) jeje

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  14. Anonymous3 April 2014 at 19:52

    biel nice to know about ur new pc.. ... i know how it feels to get a new pc... and thnku ...hope we all get a working cm9.... very desperate... i keep flashing ur old cm9 .. cz it so nice bt unfortunately.. it still unstable.. thnx fr ur hard work

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    1. bieltv.34 April 2014 at 00:09

      yeeah... will do my best

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    2. Anonymous4 April 2014 at 00:59

      we all know u can do it.. we jst need to be patient... good luck

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  15. Unknown3 April 2014 at 22:01

    Felicidades :P Saludos desde Misiones, Argentina :) Suerte, saludos!

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  16. Lego_Infinity3 April 2014 at 22:47

    Bieltv.3, you can get Oracle VM Virtualbox from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads and install ubuntu on it.

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  17. Rihel Bhowmick4 April 2014 at 00:12

    How much did it cost Biel? Please mention the currency. Btw Congrats.

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    1. bieltv.34 April 2014 at 01:40

      it costed me 599 euros, I'll update it :)

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  18. Anonymous4 April 2014 at 00:55

    Bill congratulations on the purchase, thank you that you do см9.1 I'm from Russia and very grateful to you)

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  19. Anonymous4 April 2014 at 01:25

    Biel, you put ubuntu?

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    1. bieltv.34 April 2014 at 01:41

      not yet, as I may void warranty, need to inform myself :P

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    2. Anonymous4 April 2014 at 01:55

      Are you afraid? Or protected bottles that can not remove?

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  20. Unknown4 April 2014 at 04:22

    Core i7 is very hot! Ubuntu 14.04 is released (beta version). You can run it in virtual machine so it also have warranty.

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  21. Anonymous4 April 2014 at 05:10

    Nice :D go job, good pc, go devloping :DDDD Awesome

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  22. Lego_Infinity4 April 2014 at 06:39

    When you think you've managed to finish the sound bug on CyanogenMod 9?

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  23. Unknown4 April 2014 at 07:20

    Felicidades amigo, la tienes mas que merecida, suerte en tus estudios!

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  24. Unknown4 April 2014 at 07:45

    There are a large number of followers in Turkey. Turkey loves you very much. Thank you so much for everything. Congratulations. Note: Sorry about my english bad :/

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  25. Unknown4 April 2014 at 08:44

    lol...I have same laptop :P but graphics are a little different .. Anyway, keep up the good work .. n Congrats !! :D

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  26. Anonymous4 April 2014 at 12:34

    warranty void by OS reinstall? Thats paranoic ;) Anyway u should try to install linux at VMware 10. It seems to u can use whole machine for Virtual OS, but yeah, windows 8 is taking alot of RAM and u will need this badly... Well resize some partition and install linux with grub on boot (to keep windows on a board) should be no problem to You. Cheers and have fun!

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  27. Anonymous4 April 2014 at 12:38

    good pc
    ..hope we all get a working cm9.... thnx fr ur hard work

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  28. marcussmith26264 April 2014 at 14:20

    no need to replace the opperating system - just do a dual boot with linux then you can choose to boot windows or linux
    Iv got an i7 4702MQ 8gb ram and a gefore 750M 17inch laptop and it has a windows 8.1 and a osx mavericks 10.9.2 dual boot

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    1. bieltv.35 April 2014 at 04:01

      Yeah, but resizing partitions could void waratny

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    2. marcussmith26265 April 2014 at 14:47

      Nope what you do to the hard drive is up to you - warrenty will only cover you if the drive has a manufacture fault - partitioning cant void a warrenty - its your hard drive to do what ever you want with - you will only be covered if the drives fails due to a manufacturing fault - anything else like you drop it smash blow it up or have it ablitterated by a virus you would never be covered for anyway

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  29. marcussmith26264 April 2014 at 14:23

    Also you will not void your warranty by changing the opperating system - why? because a warranty doesnt cover you for any form of software damage anyway - since the os is software you can change it get a virus or totally screw your os up - no matter what you do software wise your warranty will never cover you anyway
    Warranty will only cover you for hardware damage that has not been caused by accidental damage

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  30. Anonymous4 April 2014 at 17:00

    nice laptop

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  31. Unknown4 April 2014 at 17:02

    Congratulations! Think Progress have Cyanogenmod 9 in the next week or these days??

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    1. Anonymous5 April 2014 at 00:16

      nope! you have to wait 2019 for that.

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  32. Unknown5 April 2014 at 01:22

    All progress has already GitHub. Why are you starting again bieltv.3?

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  33. Anonymous5 April 2014 at 06:13

    so any good news related to development...?

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  34. Anonymous5 April 2014 at 07:33

    Congratulations!! I hope biel will fix bugs in CM9 next day

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  35. TecTudoCelular5 April 2014 at 07:42

    Thanks bieltv3 .. I'm waiting for the fix audio until Monday .. thanks Cm9 without bugs

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  36. TecTudoCelular5 April 2014 at 07:58

    Passes a list of audio libs for me to try to fix the audio fix for CM9

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  37. Anonymous5 April 2014 at 08:49

    Biel, no se si aun traerá esa opción pero una vez instale en mi PC Ubuntu desde Windows como si fuera un programa normal y al reiniciar te pide con cual quieres iniciar, no modifica particiones, para desinstalarlo solo ejecutas el desinstalador desde Windows y ya.

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  38. Anonymous5 April 2014 at 12:51

    at last there is an option on ubuntu if i remember, that you can install linux as large file on windows partition. IDK what is performance of that way but should be much faster than VM box, cuz this not running windows at all. Personally i preffer method with 2 partitions, ive never tested myself "image mode". Well ive never seen be4 warranty of OS, specially that is preinstalled one and i supose u got some rescue dvd for restore system or there is some hidden partition for service (i always delete it on laptops). Make sure with everything and install linux bro ;)

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    1. bieltv.35 April 2014 at 13:31

      Thanks, I'll inform myslef as good as I can

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  39. TecTudoCelular5 April 2014 at 16:11

    Based on cyanogenmod 9 galaxy ace I will put together a fix for the audio bug and also for video playback to galaxy pocket

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  40. Anonymous5 April 2014 at 21:17

    so after u r good news when is it for ourselves.... :P

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  41. Anonymous5 April 2014 at 23:04

    will there be any cm 7.2 development , or its latest release was rc4?

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  42. Anonymous6 April 2014 at 00:24

    You can dual boot (install )
    Ubuntu inside Windows without harming any of your HDD partitions ....
    as well as u can also uninstall it through Windows using 'Programs & Features ' in Control Panel

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  43. Anonymous6 April 2014 at 00:47

    We shall not have update after 2-3 months ?? So I can tell goodbye to have stable Cm9 on my device because I am going to change my device soon... :'(

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    1. bieltv.36 April 2014 at 00:57

      Dude, this will be less time than you think... I won't wait 2 months.

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  44. Anonymous6 April 2014 at 01:51

    We hope the stable CM9 will be released at the earliest times)

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  45. Unknown6 April 2014 at 04:55

    hey biel,
    come there features for Cm9.1 like: Ramzswap / higher Modded voltage 823 +/- 1000Mh frequencies / Governors / Schedulers / Init.d support / I like this Features for the Cm9.1 Kernel?

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  46. Anonymous6 April 2014 at 09:07

    biel when can we expect a good news btw sry for the eta but little excited

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  47. Anonymous6 April 2014 at 09:11

    emocionado por CM9 al menos la etapa de desarrollo

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  48. Unknown6 April 2014 at 10:32

    Bieltv.3, please give me a list with all of sound libs. I want to try to solve the audio bug because i can work. I have ubuntu! I am waiting for the list :D

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    1. Unknown6 April 2014 at 11:52

      george manole you have a website?? you are working for cm9?

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    2. Unknown7 April 2014 at 05:40

      yeeah... some like that :) i want the list with audio libs for galaxy y
      Bieltv.3, please! Give me the list!

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  49. Anonymous6 April 2014 at 14:43

    Hi. 4th season of game of thrones just started. There is a spoiler for everyone. There is no cm 9 for joefrey baratheon!

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  50. Unknown10 April 2014 at 02:45

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  51. Unknown10 April 2014 at 02:47

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  52. Unknown10 April 2014 at 13:06

    Biel, puedes dejar un link de donde compraste ese PC? El año que viene yo también entro a la uni y me parece bastante bueno, creo que se adapta perfectamente a las características que busco, supongo que ya sabrás al estar en la misma situación xD

    Gracias!

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