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Intel op teen with a 3d crosspoint memory and that's not cheaper NAND flash that goes into your typical SSDs is something that's been released for quite a while now but is finally starting to be mass adopted in laptops where in my opinion it makes the biggest difference the technology works and it works extremely well we've seen this in the previous videos that the performance benefits are there but also the convenience is certainly there to where you can add obtain to existing drives that were otherwise slow and essentially breathe new life into an existing computer however Intel is now partnering with all major notebook vendors australia-wide and is now rolling out pre-installed octane in these notebooks as an option and it is one that you should seriously consider if you want faster speeds but it's also something you may want to consider too if you are a value orientated person so here we are with four different laptops all of these rolled out in major retails australia-wide Adele Inspiron 15 1500 a HP Envy x-360 a Lenovo IdeaPad 330 s and an Acer SP 314 14 inch convertible what makes obtain then so special in these laptops well it doesn't add much cost to your computer at all and it seamlessly links up with an existing slow hard drive no matter how old what shape and what size it is to essentially make a hybrid drive that will be much faster than your typical hard drive though the technology involved with octane is actually quite interesting Intel with their obtained modules don't use typical NAND flash that's found on most SSDs instead in these modules they are using what they call 3d crosspoint memory it is still non-volatile memory but it can deliver latency closer to that of volatile memory that is DRAM sticks that go in your typical desktop computers the latency has been drastically reduced compared to that of NAND flash and modules themselves are not anywhere near as expensive as DRAM for example and we've previously done two videos here on the channel one where we look at the performance on a laptop with obtain enabled versus disabled and we've also taken a look on a desktop variant where we have compared the ad in octane module to SSDs and also hard drives at a 7200 rpm 3.5 inch and the results were very close to that of SSDs so the speeds are very close but today we have four laptops here on the desk and we're going to run some more tests with octane enabled vs. disabled to see how much of a difference this piece of tech makes in all these mainstream laptops that are being rolled out astray of wide but also on top of that I want to get a bigger sample size than the previous video we did so the first little laptops here with octane enabled vs. disabled was the Acer sp3 one for when we're booting up the machine we got 15 seconds with octane enabled versus 2 minutes and 31 seconds with the disabled opening up a large 4k video file source get 2 seconds versus 12 seconds with octane disabled then moving on to a game called scum which is a new release title on PC that's actually still in beta this scored one minute and 12 seconds to boot up versus 2 minutes and three seconds with obtained disabled so all across the board there were some big gains with the ACE sp3 one for moving onto the dell inspiron were retested Butantan passed and they made quite a difference with octane and empresses disabled for case or for seconds versus 55 seconds which was unusual for the obtain disabled to get such a slow number but this was indeed correct moving on to scum we saw one minute and 22 seconds versus 3 minutes and 6 seconds so there was a huge difference in the load times on this particular laptop move over to the Lenovo IdeaPad 330 s we saw boot times again a significant advantage with octane enabled versus disabled 13 seconds versus 1 minute and 37 seconds opening a large 4k video file or two seconds versus 12 seconds yet again and then moving over to scum loading this up took 1 minute and 33 seconds versus 3 minutes flat with obtain disabled then last stop was the HP MV X 3 70 boot times were 29 seconds with octane enabled versus 4 minutes with it off I actually had a lot of troubles with octane disabled with this particular laptop a 4k video file we had 3 seconds versus 19 seconds and then booting up scum we saw a minute and 12 seconds versus 2 minutes and 45 seconds so across all four different laptops over 3 different tests octane made a difference and it was quite a considerable difference in every single test we ran so there it all is with Intel obtain some great benefits to be had especially in Australia where the cost of octane is as little as 28 Aussie dollars for a 16 gigabyte stick and 74 dollars for a 32 gigabyte stick at these prices it is definitely gonna make it cost effective in laptops where you can combine it with either one terabyte or two terabyte 2.5 inch mechanical drive and now have a large amount of storage on your computer but also would have not have had to forked out for a one terabyte or two terabyte SSD which can add greatly to the cost of a laptop or even a desktop computer anyway these notebooks on the desk here all have octane pre-installed and if you're in the market for one of these laptops then just look for the sticker that says Intel obtained or look in the listing itself and see if it mentions obtained because it will have it pre-installed you won't have to go through any hassles to install it yourself but also on top of that you will then take advantage of the great value that octane brings to the table but if your laptop doesn't have it installed and it just has a mechanical hard drive then you can still add obtained into the laptop itself and enable it and take advantage of the speed differences however do keep in mind that this technology will be limited however to Intel seventh gen processors and upwards meaning you will at least have to have an Intel 200 series motherboard and an Intel i3 7000 series processor or greater to take advantage of this caching system though it definitely gets the nod of approval here and if you guys enjoyed this video then be sure to hit that like button and let us know in the comments section below have you tried obtained yet love reading your thoughts and opinions as always and I'll catch you in the next Tech video very soon peace out for now bye