fixed my friend's computer, we had subway for dinner and cuddled while things installed
a pretty good day
and the ram for my thinkpad and the minecraft server arrived so i'm excited to try those :3
i honestly think there's something wrong with disk i/o or paging on my i5 laptop though and i have no idea how to diagnose or fix it
found someone doing an unboxing of this same model https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBMX-YthV8Y