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ZBook Firefly 14 G8: what a clean baseline actually looks like

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  1. Measured result

    The Firefly 14 G8 is the reference machine for most of the published Lacksan work, so it is worth writing down what its unmodified state looks like before anyone starts changing things.

    Before any tuning, the machine was inventoried across firmware, drivers, hardware resources, kernel-level screening, power policy, security isolation, sign-in privacy, startup registration and thermal telemetry. Each of those inventories is published separately.

    The point of a baseline is not that the numbers are impressive. It is that you can prove what the machine did before you touched it.

  2. User observation

    Following this on a Fury G11 rather than a Firefly, so the thermal envelope is completely different, but the inventory-first approach transferred cleanly.

    The thing that surprised me was how much of my machine's sign-in delay was startup registration I had accumulated over two years rather than anything hardware related. I had assumed storage.

  3. Measured result

    That matches the published stale startup registration work. Worth reading before assuming a storage bottleneck. Stale startup registration writeup.

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