New Dell Vostro V131

I played the usual 'Jack Sparrow' song from youtube, 1080p, High power profile: Zero problems with playback.

If you're interested in games then I really would suggest that you go for the i5 model as the HD2000 gpu isn't the best in the world... all you need to know:
Intel HD Graphics 2000 / 100 - Notebookcheck.net Tech

Pretty much the same processing power as my old Envy 13 which did ok for light gaming but struggled with Tropico 3 etc.

 

Just disabled the following:
- Hibernation
- System recovery

...and stopped the following services:
DISABLED: (Some of these will not be running at the time of change)
- Adaptive Brightness (Set to manual but I've disabled)
- Bluetooth device monitor (I don't use BT)
- Bluetooth media service
- Bluetooth OBEX services
- Bluetooth support service
- Credential manager
- Desktop Windows Manager Session manager (Will disable Aero)
- Diagnostic System Host
- Diagnostic Service Host
- Distributed Link tracking Client
- Disk Defragmenter
- Fax
- Function Discovery Resource Publication
- HomeGroup Listener
- HomeGroup Provider
- ALL Iintel Services (7 on this machine!)
- IKE and AuthIP Ipsec keying modules
- IP Helper
- Microsoft .net framework ... (All of them)
- Portable Device Enumerator Service
- Print Spooler (If you print, don't disable this one)
- Remote Registry
- Shell Hardware Detection
- SSDP Discovery
- Smart Cards
- Superfetch (For SSD, disable, for standard HD, leave on. I've disabled to test)
- Themes (Probably better to leave this alone as things look horrible)
- Windows defender (Open WIn Defender first, Options, Don't use this)
- UPnP device host
- Validity VCS Fingerprint service (ALso un-installed the software)
- Windows Cardspace
- Windows connect now
- Windows Defender (Turn the program off first)
- Windows Font Cache Service
- Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)
- Windows Media Center Receiver Service
- Windows Media Center Scheduler Service
- Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service
- Windows Presentation Foundation Font Cache 3.0.0.0
- Windows Search
- WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service
- Wireless pan DHCP server
- WWAN Autoconfig

Disable on your own head (But seeing as I've been doing this for years you should be ok. DO NOT do this on a domain/company machine) The special function keys still work as intended.

Dell Vostro 131 – 45 processes, 636Mb being used. 36 seconds from off to desktop. Crazy results all the way.

 

Thank you for your review!

Can you comment on the speaker quality?
(of course I don't expect it to be great )

 

Speaker quality is... (Puts on a song) They pass. Better than the models that fire the audio down. Nothing special at all and I'll make sure I carry headphones

As it stands I am happy with the 131 but the decider will be once I clean install onto an SSD, tweak and actually use the thing.

 

Optimize it with Windows Performance Toolkit could probably get your under 30 seconds.

I ordered my V131 with i3 a week ago, still waiting

 

the display seems to be the weakest part of the V131... :S

 

"Optimize it with Windows Performance Toolkit "

No need as I do it all myself with a clean install, major tweak. My record so far with an Acer 1820ptz and Crucial M225 drive is... 15 seconds. The HP 5330m is close at 16/17. I have high hopes for the 131

 

not sure why you want to turn off all these features but each of their own.

 

OK. Since you will move to SSD. Windows Performance Toolkit will not work for SSD anyway.

My best boot time is 23 seconds on a 5400 RPM HDD.

 

Ok. Reply with a list detailing each time you've needed the features I've disabled above...

Disabling them leads to a faster machine with more resources for what you DO want to do. It's about performance and that's more important than ever seeing as machines are appearing out of the box basically crippled.

The standard home user does not need or will ever need most of the functions that sit there using resources. That's why I turn them off. (Remember, most people simply surf the net and read e-mail and I did state that if you use the machine of a domain then DON'T disable them)

Sometimes I wonder why I bother