Price Point

[David Schwartz]

I agree with that Steve says. 

Actually, your best bet is to replace the HDD with an SSD drive.

You’ll be amazed at how much faster it runs. 

-David



> On Dec 5, 2015, at 12:35 PM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 11:24:40 -0700
> "Snyder, Alexander" <alex at misteralexander.com> wrote:
> 
>> Howdy!
>> 
>> I need some help pricing a laptop. It's 5 years old, but I had it
>> custom made in 2010, to get the best out of it.
>> 
>> It's a black, no-brand, Core i5, 15", 12GB DDR3, 120GB HDD.
>> 
>> It came with 8GB of memory, but I upgraded it to 12 very recently.
>> 
>> It's been my main Linux box, except for a 6 month span where I went
>> "Slumming" with Win7, LOL.
>> 
>> I'm thinking it's worth around $500, but I'd like your input!
>> 
>> Here is a photo:
>> https://goo.gl/photos/CrqMr7hZikbihXcF7
> 
> Hi Alex,
> 
> Here's my input:
> 
> Keep it. Never sell it. Use it til it drops.
> 
> 12GB of RAM is almost never attainable new under $600, but people don't
> care about RAM (except me). 120GB HD means very little room for VMs and
> even data. The fact that it's a 2010 means it's probably built sturdier
> than today's macbook air imitators, and that's a good thing. But not in
> the marketplace.
> 
> Here's my input --- go poking around /proc/cpuinfo and find out whether
> it's set up for hardware virtualization. If so, get yourself a 5400 RPM
> (for cool running) 1T disk and put it in there. IIRC by 2010 everyone
> had switched from IDE to sata, so this should be no problem. You'll
> have a kickass machine that maybe might get CPU bound a little more
> than others.
> 
> If you *really* want to speed this thing up, throw in a 256GB SSD, and
> get an external USB spinning disk to hold big data.
> 
> When you have a laptop that runs Linux, you have a very valuable asset:
> A laptop you know for sure runs Linux. Keep it!
> 
> SteveT
> 
> Steve Litt 
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