Yesterday, I found in our local store Manor a model which is very interesting from HP as follows – i5 3rd generation, 8Gb RAM 500Gb HDD + 32Gb SSD, integrated video, WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0 and the screen 1366x768. While everything was perfect, the screen is something which is outdated nowadays but because I need a computer for quick development, I decided to take it. As the computer is intended to be a development machine for Windows 8 applications, the first thing in the morning was to install Windows 8 and this article is about how it went.

Recently, Swisscom migrated me on a new VDSL line, which as it was claimed should have better speed. Although I cannot realize the big change with the new line, there is a big change - a new router from Swisscom which is free of charge. But with new router I got new problems: I cannot change preconfigured Wireless SSID and pre-shared key.

The first question is why do I need to replace perfect 3.5 HDD in a new HP Portable Media Drive (300Gb in my case)? The answers is to use the enclosure with xb4 docking station while the storage is as maximum as possible.