Warning-its long,then again,arent my posts/threads always annoyingly the size of a small novel?Alright my loves,heres the story.My parents,bless those wonderful ppl,showed up at my house today with my early Christmas gift- a new laptop!!!Honestly,they don't know what I do,yet.Im not so disillusioned as to fool myself into thinking they wont find out eventually,but Im trying to prolong it as long as I can.Thats for another thread though-onto the point! I am soooo very grateful for my new laptop,especially since I don't exactly come from money, but I have no idea if its really fast or not.I do know ANYTHING is better than that ridiculous piece of shit I was camming on before- it was like 10 yrs old,and I had to rig up a 2 GB flash drive as RAM just to continue to use it.anyways- since they don't know what Im doing,they had no idea that I really needed ATLEAST an I5 processor.I know NOTHING about AMD processors,honestly,I really don't know a lot of the technical stuff about computer anyways.Ill post a link of what they gave me,http://www.target.com/p/gateway-15-6..._sku=14293000& but if you don't want to click on it,ill post the specs here.Its a Gateway NV52L15u and it has Windows 8 64 bit,AMD Quad Core Processor A8-4500M,AMD Radeon HD 7640G graphics card,4 GB DDR3 memory,500 GB HDD storage,and a 1.3 mp HD webcam(1280x1024) .
My questions are (sorry they aren't in bulleted format,I tried to list them like that but it wouldn't let me for some reason)-
1.Is this a fast computer or what you would consider atleast ok for someone that has had a shitty 10 yr old laptop that couldn't run the encoder at all(I could get it running but holy shit,the CPU was at like 98% the entire time and it lagged and froze CONSTANTLY)
2.If you had to make an educated guess,what kind of Intel processor would you equate this one's to? Im not getting my hopes up that its i7 worthy,but ive searched and searched and cant really find a straight answer.is it atleast equivalent to an i3?yea I know they aren't that fast but its like the speed of freakin lightning compared to my old one!
3.Should I expect to run into any unseen problems using my external cam?the internal one is only 1.3 mp even though its supposed to be an HD cam lol I don't have the best external webcam ever but its what Ive got to work with for the moment-its a Logitech C615,its HD and not too terribly bad,although could be much better.Im getting a 9000 the sec I have enough money,dont worry lol Ive read of a lot of ladies having trouble switching from an internal to external,and getting sound to work,etc.If there are any tips,tricks to smoothly transitioning to the external cam,Id be extremely grateful if you made me aware of them.Im excited,i get to finally make clips and open my C4S store to the public,its been sitting there unused bc the quality of the clips were awful!!!
4.Windows 8 is set up pretty much like a tablet,its VERY different.it wants to integrate and sync everything,link everything through social networking etc.uuum,Im a camgirl,the last thing I want to do is associate this laptop with my real identity.Im afraid to link it with my phone,or even my personal email address.Is there anything I need to do to ensure Im not giving custies my private info since this computer is so privy to linking and social networking etc?
5.If this is not even equivalent to an i3 processor,is it worth upgrading the processor as soon as I get a chance?What I mean is,looking at the rest of the specs,are they compatible and good enough for a i5 or 7 equivalent processor or would I need to upgrade other parts of the laptop as well?Wondering if its cheaper to buy a new better laptop in the near future or to upgrade this one (if its horrible,that is)
I apologize for the long thread,and I honestly have tried to look up the answers to these questions but many of the websites and answers are just personal opinions,not hard facts.I knew my girls here would give me what im looking for- yea some of it may be just personal opinion,but considering yall are looking at computers from the same angle I am,I know you will be able to tell me realistically if this is a good enough laptop or not and what to expect.I apologize for such a long thread,although as probably alot of you have figured out,I can be a bit of a talker at times and tend to write more than is really necessary.Thank you sooo much in advance to anyone that takes the time to answerIm so excited but panicked at the thought of switching to a totally new, unfamiliar computer and I def need all the help I can get.
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Honestly,they don't know what I do,yet.Im not so disillusioned as to fool myself into thinking they wont find out eventually,but Im trying to prolong it as long as I can.Thats for another thread though-onto the point! I am soooo very grateful for my new laptop,especially since I don't exactly come from money, but I have no idea if its really fast or not.I do know ANYTHING is better than that ridiculous piece of shit I was camming on before- it was like 10 yrs old,and I had to rig up a 2 GB flash drive as RAM just to continue to use it.anyways- since they don't know what Im doing,they had no idea that I really needed ATLEAST an I5 processor.I know NOTHING about AMD processors,honestly,I really don't know a lot of the technical stuff about computer anyways.Ill post a link of what they gave me,
Im so excited but panicked at the thought of switching to a totally new, unfamiliar computer and I def need all the help I can get.
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I knew earlier in the week something was definitely up bc I had WAY more guys in my room than I normally do(my rm traffic isnt as high as others obviously since I don't use the encoder)Definitely no complaints about the higher traffic,but I absolutely hate that SM is having so many damn problems right now!The hoards seems to have died down some,not great for me especially if I cant use the encoder but I DO NOT like it messing up for everyone else,it screws with not only everyones $$ but will eventually drive traffic away from the site,regardless if youre streaming in HD or not,if it isn't fixed...And so far,it really is like heaven,the difference is AMAZING.I cant complain about a free laptop,even if its not exactly up to par with SM standards,so Im gonna absolutely make the most of it!Ill play around with the encoder tmrw and see what happens,im so excited!Even if I cant use it,i KNOW its going to be sooo much better than what Im used to!

I know,its so annoying to see ANOTHER camgirl ask computer questions-I try to always search as much as I can before I ever post a thread,so hopefully yall will excuse the stupid questions-I just haven't found straight answers to a cple of the questions yet...

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