Ejbyoga-build-diary
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I replaced my old laptop with a Lenovo Yoga machine that comes standard with a SSD and 16gB of memory.
The new machine
Yoga 730-15IKB
- Intel Core i7-8550U CPU @ 1.8 GHz 2.0 GHz
- 16 GB ram
- Hi Resolution 3840 x 2160 touch screen
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 GPU + integrated Intel GPU
- Window 10 Home
Installed Software
- Adobe Creative Cloud Photography tools (Photoshop, Lightroom, CameraRaw, Bridge)
- Topaz AI photography tools
- Vegas Pro 18.0 video editor
- Solidworks 2019
- Arduino IDE
- Amazon Kindle Reader
- Amok EXIF sorter (sorts files based on EXIF metadata)
- Google backup and sync (backup for this machine)
- Figlet Generator (for figlet text in source code)
- Filezilla (FTP client)
- Git for Windows (for software version management)
- Google Chrome
- InkScape (graphics editor)
- IrfanView (image viewer)
- Java development platform
- Jetbrains PyCharm Community Edition (Python IDE)
- Python 3.7
- LibreOffice 6.1
- Logictech MyHarmony (for programming Harmony remote, though I generally do this on my phone)
- Nikon RAW codec (for raw file thumbnails in file explorer)
- Facebook Messenger (Mostly for family video meetings)
- MySQL tools (for learning SQL stuff. I have not really done much with this)
- Lots of mostly useless Microsoft stuff.
- Norton Security and LifeLock (internet security, firewall, etc)
- Notepad++ (text editor)
- Nvidia support software for the GeForce GTX 1050 video hardware
- Nikon NX Studio photo editor (just because it is free and supports Nikon raw files.)
- Oracle VM VirtualBox (For virtual machines, including Ubuntu)
- Private Internet Access (Virtual Private Network)
- qBittorrent (BitTorrent client for torrent downloads)
- VMware Workstation (For virtual machines, none installed right now)
- RPN Scientific X (Microsoft RPN calculator)
- TightVNC (remote display software. I hardly use it)
- VLC Media Player (My go to for playing and converting video files)
- Visual Studio Code (Microsoft IDE)
- WinDirStat (Graphical Disk drive analyzer. Very handy for cleaning up a drive)
- WinRAR (file compressor/decompressor)