After the very timely death of my 2017 HP Envy (all Intel) laptop, I just managed to move the SATA SSD and the 16 GB RAM over to my daughter's retired 2017 HP Pavilion (Intel + Nvidia).
The Bluefin install I was using on the dead laptop booted right up and is working as if nothing happened.
FYI, this is my first time using Nvidia.
The old laptop had a spinning Win 10 drive and 12 GB of RAM (one 8GB stick, one 4GB -- who does that?? HP, I guess.)
Takeaways:
It's pretty cool to be able to move a drive from one laptop to another and keep going without a reinstall
I thought this laptop MIGHT have an NVMe slot, but it does NOT. So my Aeon drive doesn't have a home ...
I forgot that I already replaced the battery in this particular laptop.
Another takeaway:
HP laptops are serviceable, but having to remove rubber feet to get to screws is shit design. At least the Pavilion's rubber feet go back and stick.
The BS rubber strips on the (more expensive) Envy were much worse. One came off on its own, and I had to remove the other to get to screws -- and never put it back. I replaced with rubber dots from the hardware store.
