HP Ultrabook: HP Folio 13

[SoundsGood]

Longer battery life, better screen, and better build quality.

And fuglier too.

[vengance_01]

And fuglier too.

Meh thats subjective.

[BigNerd]

The Folio cheats a bit... weighs 3.3 lbs... ultrabook specs say < 3.1 lbs.

Pretty thick too.

[excalibur1814]

My main question: What is the fan noise like? Does it stay off when idle and only really ramp up when you're actually doing something...

Answer:

"Throughout our testing, we also noticed an incessant, but not-too-distracting whirring coming from the vents. After awhile, it registered as white noise, but it's worth noting that this sound doesn't go away, and is especially discernible if you're working in an otherwise quiet space"

Ahh pants. I grabbed a 5330m for my partner and due to the i3 the fan is pretty much off most of the time. (P.s. If ONLY they had improved the battery life on that machine)

[jeepfun]

Question for your Folio 13 Owners...

Have had mine for over a week now and am very happy with it so far. Biggest complaint would be the screen angles but no issues with anything else. Also, to those worried about fan noise, mine is not always on - in fact doesn't go on much at all. When it is on, you do hear it but it's not too bad.

With that sad - two questions:

SSD and Defrag:
The folio comes with an SSD but I noticed that by default, the system is configured to defrag the drive. I know that SSDs you are not supposed to defrag them as it's not necessary AND actually causes more wear. Anyone know how to get Windows to notice it is an SSD and disable Disk Defrag? I've got an SSD in my desktop and it just automagically worked that way.

Hibernation:
The system is definitely configured to enter hibernation state at some point and does so but when accessing Power Profile, there is no configuration for it. As if the system thinks it can't and doesn't happen. Anyone have any ideas on how to reconfigure it so I can customize when to go to hibernate after sleep (I find it does it too quickly and does it while plugged in which I don't care for). Note, there is also a partition for Hibernation which I thought was interesting.

Hoping not to do a wipe of the system now that it's setup..
Thanks

[excalibur1814]

1: Click start and type defrag. Click disk defrag... Configure schedule. remove the tick. Or, Click start, type services... Click services. Set the Disk defragmenter service to disabled.

2: Click start and type power. Click power options. Click change plan settings for the currently selected power profile. Change advanced settings. The settings for sleep are within.

Thanks for the fan info

[jeepfun]

Thanks -

Already did suggestion 1 - just seems strange to me as my desktop doesn't even allow you to enable defrag at all on the SSD there.

As to item 2 - no joy. Literally - no hibernate option Under Sleep. There is "Sleep->Sleep after" but no "Allow hybrid" or "Hibernate after". If I check the power options with "powercfg -a", it says that hibernate is not available. Pretty funky if I do say so myself.

To the guys that have wiped and installed fresh - how does it show for you?

Thanks

[SoundsGood]

Old: Folio
New: Spectre

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1GIk...e_gdata_player

[Wally Simmonds]

I would be very keen for one of these if I could get enough RAM in it - I'm not sure if it can be upgraded. The other option is to get one of the new DM1zs with the I3s - all up it'd probably be cheaper, and I'd get to choose the SSD.

Anyone know if anything similar to these can support 2x8GB dimms?

[d2daanny]

Are the SSD's on this replaceable? (7mm maybe?) or would they be like the Macbook Air?