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Thread: New life to an old laptop

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so since bought gf macbook last christmas, i've periodically used old dell lat. 600m (1.5ghz pen. m, 512mb, 60gb 5.4k rpm hd) tote around on vacation upload photos , browse web. has sentimental value in it, keep around.

running ubuntu (11.10), thing dog slow. christmas year, asked following:

http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82e16820145068
http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82e16820208529
http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82e16812186098

old hard drive in thing averaged 22mb/s , grinded away trying open browser...total garbage. hd bottleneck, use more ram too.

got parts in, , first thing first, upgraded bios a11 a17...big jump.

ram went in fine, mobo wasn't seeing hd. make long story short...a few parts later , "fabrication" made enclosure, got damn thing read in bios.

if guys have seen prices of old ide harddrives, you'll know can't 1 under $100. granted, they're on 100gb, downloading torrents move file server or photos , browsing, thing has come life ssd. hoping see 90mb/s advertised, settle 51mb/s avg. i'm getting.

install of 10.04 lts took of 20 minutes usb flash drive, , system boot time cut in half. browser opens small blip new ssd. can have multiple tabs open , run more 1 program @ once! yay!

moral of story, if can live 32gb primary hd, cheapest , best option on market. $86 32gb ide ssd capable of 90mb/s.

wow, awesome story. have latitude d610 1gig of ram , 1.73ghz m. thinking tonight how had become unbearably slow lately... think inspired, thanks.


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