thatgui
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So I got a new unit from ED (well more or less as the there was no protection on the GPD-Logo and the Logo already had some scratches), but did not have that much time to play around with it:
No display driver crashes at all (had some in the beginning with the old unit, but they stopped after a driver update), so I guess some alterations were made to my unit.
Sadly this unit has a warped lower case, as it does not sit flush on a table anymore, thus one edge is slight raised - which I find a tad annoying as I rarely pick it up at work. Still have some strange WiFi issues: It connects to my home network fine but it does not connect to the my companies main WiFi network, but to my companies guest WiFi, although the one configuration is an altered copy of the other (with the working one being more restrictive). My old unit could connect fine to it, other devices (tablets, cellphones, Laptops) can too.
But the biggest gripe is Windows 10, the more I have to use it, the more I dislike it: Connecting to the companies network just fails, without giving the user the slightest hint about why it failed. I (surprisingly) managed to Install Win10 pro with a DELL-OEM key on it, just to discover that getting BitLocker isn't an easy task/probably not possible: poking around with the group policy editor resulted in Windows telling me that this device has no keyboard that is available "pre boot" so I guess its not possible. Windows now comes with bloatware too, and lots of little bugs that are annoying (like Windows telling me I could free up some space every 30 min, although I already did that, privacy settings getting reset after updates, etc.)
It looks like they "removed" (probably only hid) most of the configuration stuff from the BIOS, is there a way to "unhide" these options ?
No display driver crashes at all (had some in the beginning with the old unit, but they stopped after a driver update), so I guess some alterations were made to my unit.
Sadly this unit has a warped lower case, as it does not sit flush on a table anymore, thus one edge is slight raised - which I find a tad annoying as I rarely pick it up at work. Still have some strange WiFi issues: It connects to my home network fine but it does not connect to the my companies main WiFi network, but to my companies guest WiFi, although the one configuration is an altered copy of the other (with the working one being more restrictive). My old unit could connect fine to it, other devices (tablets, cellphones, Laptops) can too.
But the biggest gripe is Windows 10, the more I have to use it, the more I dislike it: Connecting to the companies network just fails, without giving the user the slightest hint about why it failed. I (surprisingly) managed to Install Win10 pro with a DELL-OEM key on it, just to discover that getting BitLocker isn't an easy task/probably not possible: poking around with the group policy editor resulted in Windows telling me that this device has no keyboard that is available "pre boot" so I guess its not possible. Windows now comes with bloatware too, and lots of little bugs that are annoying (like Windows telling me I could free up some space every 30 min, although I already did that, privacy settings getting reset after updates, etc.)
Still hesitant to do this as one guy complained about the nubs behaving differently now, and I do not care that much about the page scrollingDid the controller firmware update as well. It's noticeably better than what it shipped with. Main thing for me was analog page scrolling for web browsing worked, but was shitty, now it's near perfect.
It looks like they "removed" (probably only hid) most of the configuration stuff from the BIOS, is there a way to "unhide" these options ?