LarryB
I needed an upgrade to my aging Toshiba laptop. This computer seemed to check all the boxes, latest Intel processor, SSD C drive and standard 1T D drive, 17" display and 16G of memory. It arrived with Windows 10 Home. I have not been a fan of Windows 10 and frankly, have been avoiding it for some time now. But, with no drivers available for Windows 7 for this laptop I was stuck. Right off the bat, the problems started. First, when it would sit idle and go into hibernate mode, it would never come out. No amount of button pushing could wake it up. So, power cycle it to get it back and immediately disable hibernate mode. I purchased a license for Windows 10 Pro and upgraded the laptop. For a while it seemed like it was working fine but there were still occasional lockups. Finally, while I was away for the long weekend after the 4th of July the OS updated itself (it seems nearly impossible to stop that from happening with Win 10) and the computer became totally unstable. If would get to the login screen but soon after would black screen with a spinning mouse cursor. Sometimes you could log in and start working, but invariably the black screen would return causing you to potentially lose work. After much googling and trying to solve this issue the configuration got corrupted and it would no longer boot...not even to Safe Mode. I was unwilling to spend hours or days trying to recover this and get it to a stable point again. Nobody should have to do that. At this point I had had it with this thing. I needed a fast, reliable machine for work and this wasnt it. Fortunately, I was still within the 30 day window to return it, so I packed it up and sent it back. Too bad, really. When I was younger I would always use ASUS motherboards in the computers I built. But unfortunately, the combination of Win 10 and this computer was a match made in hell.
