A:AnswerTake back and have the Geek squad take a look, but mine worked great out of the box so it may have issues. Should not have to fix a new product in my opinion.
A:AnswerOptane is a special memory module designed to speed up the hard drive. It is more noticeable on old hard drives vs. the solid state drive in this laptop, but it will still help your most frequently used programs open faster.
A:AnswerYes, switching out gives you the full regular windows 10 64 bit experience. No performance issues. I was forced to convert to get chrome installed and it took about 3 minutes.
A:AnswerYes the product is green compliant. Yes the battery life is well over your questioned amount.
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A:AnswerThis has plenty of power to run most software and would be able to handle heavy multitasking. I will be very fast as well. It would not be good for PC gaming.