For those unfamiliar with a "Power Plan", it's basically the rules that the laptop follows with regards to power use in various scenarios that allow you to determine the point where performance versus power/battery use intersect. Also, there are some more options for how the laptop will act with lid, power button, etc in different settings if you create/alter a "Power Plan". One of the options for laptops is "Choose what closing the lid does" located in the list in the left side column. Look in the "Power Options" section of the control panel. Plastic shards in your eyes is painful.Ĭut resistant gloves if you use a utility knife to trim the access hole. Plus keeping the lid on made it easier to find a place to put the laptop.Įye protection when you are drilling - the plastic will be going all over when you drill. I wanted to keep the keys covered, but accessible in case I needed to get to them later. How to turn on the laptop without opening the lid. Getting the laptop to always boot directly into an external monitor.Ģ. All of the connections were easily available! I didn't think about this until I started hooking things up.ġ. Suddenly I was able to open up a 18" x 24" space on the desk!Ĥ. Small footprint - I mounted the laptop up on it's side behind some other stuff.
I had to turn it off if I wanted to record.ģ. Plus I had problems getting to my home network with XP.Ģ. For some reason I couldn't get the old PC to run Win 7. Win 7 - I could now have Win 7 in the studio. Switching over to this laptop had several advantages:ġ. A friend had an Asus laptop (Pentinum dual core, 4 GB RAM) with a missing screen that was much more powerful than the single core Althlon (3 GB RAM) that I had been using.
The PC in my home recording studio was really in need of upgrading and I didn't want to spend much money to do it. This is one of those easy mods that just presented itself.
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