Upgrade old laptop with SSD

[Brian Cluff]

In my experience an SSD can be the difference between a laptop that you 
never use because it's too slow and that same laptop becoming your 
favorite new toy.

The speed of that CPU is about what you would expect out of a lower end 
current laptop.  As long as it's in good condition physically, I would 
put another 4 megs of ram into it and give it that 240gig SSD and enough 
the new life you've just given your old equipment.

For my kids, they've have an older computer that they never used to use 
very much, but I gave them an SSD for christmas and now their computer 
is they favorite thing that I can't get them off of (Yeay, geek dad!)

Do it!
Brian Cluff

On 02/29/2016 08:49 AM, Keith Smith wrote:
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>
> Hi,
>
> I have an older laptop.  Not sure when I bought it.  I'm thinking I 
> bought it before 2009, however the CPU is an AMD 3300M which according 
> to what I am reading was not in production until 2011. It has 4G of 
> RAM and a 500GB HD.  It's running Win7, which is a little slow.
>
> I was thinking of replacing the HD with an SSD and potentially making 
> it into a "Chromebook".... (Thunderbird/Libre Office/ Chrome Browser)  
> I'm reading the SSD's are 10x faster than the HD. There has been prior 
> discussions about breathing life into old hardware by replacing the HD 
> with SSD and installing Linux (now we are on topic).
>
> Initially I was thinking a small SSD since I will probably never use 
> this laptop in production... But you never know.  If these mods work 
> out I might dual boot it - Win7 / Mint 17 KDE.
>
> Newegg is selling a 240G Kingston SSD for $65 which is probably way 
> more storage than I would ever need. 
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820721108
>
> What type of lifespan should I expect for an SSD with moderate usage?
>
> Anything specific I should be looking at?
>
> Thank you so much for your help!!
>