Maya realized she didn’t actually know how to check specs. Not really. She knew the buzzwords—RAM, processor, graphics card—but they were just sounds. Now, with a deadline looming, she needed to turn those sounds into understanding.
She closed the old laptop with a sigh of relief and turned to the new silver one. Time to interrogate it.
Speccy was like an X-ray machine. It showed her the temperature of the old laptop’s overheating CPU, the brand of the new laptop’s SSD (a fast Samsung), and even the speed of the RAM (DDR5 at 6400MHz—very good).
Here was the truth the “About” page hid. Her old laptop’s CPU was pegged at 100% just from displaying the desktop. The memory graph was a flat red line. She clicked on the section—oh. A 5400 RPM mechanical hard drive, not an SSD. That explained the four-minute boot times.