Old Laptop Upgrade (SSD + Ram) BIG DIFFERENCE!

In this video I upgrade a 12 year old laptop - Does It make a difference?

[nunyobiz]

From a guy who has done many of these upgrades, going from an old spinning HDD to a solid state drive is literally a night vs day difference. And SSDs, for the most part, tend to be much more reliable than older drives.

[namesake]

I upgraded my laptop from 4 to 8 gb ram, 500gb hdd to 240gb ssd. It has intel celeron processor. Operating speed changed drastically.

[ironphilly]

Dying laptops with old battery and missing keys

Random samsung ssd: back to life

[abhijeetm]

Forget the upgrades, the fact that this old laptop works on battery needs some appreciation!

[ekon]

Same type of laptop here, with a T4200 (2x2Ghz), SSD and 4GB ram. Running with Linux Mint works great for web browsing, office and 720/1080p video viewing.

[sweetypie]

My son just upgraded my very slow 6 year old Lenovo ideapad L340 PC and it’s like new. Upgraded from 1tb hdd to 500gb nvme SSD, from 8gb ram to 16gb ram and from windows 10 to windows 11. It already had a i5 cpu and it’s much faster. I’m so loving it. The cost was about $98 total for the ram and SSD, windows 11 upgrade was a free download.

[sidewinder]

Thanks for the video I updated my 12-year-old Acer laptop with a 500gb SSD drive 8 gigs of ram from 4 and a clean install of Windows 10 home edition what a difference! Now it's good for another few years until end-of-life of Windows 10

[jeanpavan]

Did the same on an old toshiba satellite pro. Added 4gb of ram, now 8gb total, and a 1tb ssd from crucial. These gave a new life to it. Booting now is under 30s. It never was so fast.

[untermench]

I've done the same thing to several systems and agree that it is a definite improvement. One change I have found useful is using faster memory as in using 800 MHZ DRAM instead of 666 MHZ DRAM. It also improves the video quality in systems using shared memory by reducing latency.

[DeathPerMinute]

Was bored one day and randomly decided to upgrade my old 2012 laptop that was just collecting dust. Went from a pentium to an i7, upgraded the ram from 4gb to 8gb and replaced the hdd with an ssd. After gaining a new breath of life, it became monumentally more usable, it pretty much is a different computer, and the upgrades were only $63

[__joshplays.]

A really great video and very helpful, watching this on 2023 of april 3.
Just got the best advice ever!thank you!❤️ Worth subscribing

[howardsix]

did the similar upgrade on my tecra made a world of upload

[haroldechevarria]

Great info that many can benefit from! I have maxed out the RAM that the motherboard supports on a Toshiba satellite A305 laptop (Manufactured in 2007), put an SSD in it, and even added a Bluetooth thumb to it and it now has that working on it also. It actually has been running fine with Windows 11 on it (on of course 'unsupported' hardware) for over a year already. It's a usable device in 2023!

[AjitSingh-hxtk]

If you install Windows 7, your Laptop's processor Life will also increase because in Win7 CPU meter goes to 00 when put in idle rather than the comparisons to other operating system.

[ThePeca]

My cluttered up 8 year old windows installation is ready to use after about 6 minutes after powering on, so 1:28 is absolutely not bad for an old girl like this, especially with just 1gb of ram, its actually a miracle 😀

[Highran]

From what I remember I think this laptop is from the Vista era. Even the specifications back then were laughing as Vista recommended 1.5 GB of RAM for it to run smoothly yet lots of manufacturers back then were shipping Vista machines with 1GB RAM.

[domenvalentinuzzi]

I think it's a good idea to upgrade also the cpu to some core 2 duo instead of the celeron

[nickalvizo]

My dad has this laptop in Mexico. Still running Windows Vista but it’s horribly slow lol

[RETROMachines]

Wow, another useful video, keep it up...

[kztech]

Nice video. Though I'd like to add in your case I think you'd most certainly wanna consider changing the cooling, and also while at it, you could also really use a CPU upgrade too. A Core 2 duo T8300 is guarnteed to work and is like 10 bucks and not T9300 or T9500 overpriced, but if somehow you are lucky you get a GM45 Northbridge (check CPUZ), then you are open to faster and cheaper Core 2 duo P8800, T9550, T9600 as well!