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<p>Posted on 19 November 2023 by Leilukin
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<p>The laptop I am using for doing everything on desktop — including coding and managing this very website and blog — is the first gaming laptop I ever had. I bought this laptop in 2018, meaning I have used it for 5 years by the time of this writing.</p>
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<p>In 2018, I was able to purchase a budget gaming laptop with a solid-state drive (SSD) as its system drive. However, the SSD only had a 258GB storage capacity, which is paltry by today's hard drive standards, especially if you are a gamer, since the installation size of mainstream video games has grown bigger over time (which is actually one of the reasons I rarely play new AAA games any more).</p>
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<p>This means that even though I immediately experienced the night-and-day difference in how much the speed of booting my operating system compared to all the laptops I owned previously, I was unable to enjoy the benefit of gaming on an SSD, which is faster loading of games, because I still had to install video games on my hard disk drive to preserve the space of my SSD system drive... until now.</p>
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<p>After using my gaming laptop for 5 years, my SSD started displaying signs of age with random shutdowns and blue screens of death, followed by a "No Bootable Device" error even after my laptop restarted. As the issue became more frequent, and none of the possible solutions I found online worked at all, I finally asked for professional help to replace my corrupted SSD system drive. I chose a 1TB SSD with Windows 11 installed as my new system drive.</p>
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<p>As a result, on 16 November, my 5-year-old gaming laptop was reborn with a new SSD system drive. A new SSD with much larger storage capacity means I can finally experience gaming on an SSD, and the benefit that came with it. It truly felt like I had a new computer again, since I needed to reinstall all the apps I use, but it was a small price to pay, and I have always kept lists of apps I use in case I am in situations where I needed to restart my system like this.</p>
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.footer__links li:not(:last-child)::after {
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content: '|';
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padding-left: 0.6em;
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}
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/* Screen sizes larger than mobile */
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@media only screen and (min-width: 30rem) {
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.footer {
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padding: 1rem 1rem 2rem 1rem;
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}
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}
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/* Tablet screen size */
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@media only screen and (min-width: 43.75rem) {
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.footer {
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padding: 1rem;
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}
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}
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</style>
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<button class="top-btn hidden" aria-label="Scroll to top">
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<i class="fa-solid fa-chevron-up"></i>
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</button>
|
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|
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<style>
|
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.top-btn {
|
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position: fixed;
|
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margin: 0;
|
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padding: 0;
|
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bottom: 0.5rem;
|
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right: 0.5rem;
|
||
z-index: 999;
|
||
border: none;
|
||
background-color: var(--clr-top-btn-bg);
|
||
color: var(--clr-top-btn-txt);
|
||
border-radius: 50em;
|
||
width: 2rem;
|
||
aspect-ratio: 1 / 1;
|
||
}
|
||
|
||
.top-btn:focus {
|
||
outline: 0.25em solid var(--clr-top-btn-bg);
|
||
outline-offset: 0.15em;
|
||
}
|
||
</style>
|
||
|
||
<script defer>
|
||
const topButton = document.querySelector(".top-btn");
|
||
|
||
window.onscroll = () => {
|
||
if (document.body.scrollTop > 20 || document.documentElement.scrollTop > 20) {
|
||
topButton.classList.remove("hidden");
|
||
} else {
|
||
topButton.classList.add("hidden");
|
||
}
|
||
}
|
||
|
||
topButton.addEventListener('click', () => {
|
||
window.scrollTo({
|
||
top: 0,
|
||
left: 0,
|
||
behavior: "smooth",
|
||
});
|
||
});
|
||
</script>
|
||
</body>
|
||
</html> |