Revive your old laptop

That old hunk of junk laptop that you have kicking around could be more than a paperweight... And it might be easier to fix than you'd think.

Intro Screen Music Credit:
Title: Laszlo - Supernova

[Apollo_]

The good thing about youtube is the ability to leave constructive critisicm in the comments.

[mattkoesterman]

Basically just wasted 7mins of my life so that someone could show me putting a SSD in your old laptop speeds up your boot time. No shit, Linus it's 2017; you can do better.

p.s. The thumbnail is very misleading. Click bait?

[milkteawithoutbubbles]

Thank you Linus for higlighting Luke's package, more of him in light grey sweatpants please

[shishsquared]

First time I ever disliked a LTT video. I thought you guys were above clickbait. No saw in video, and literally just swaps out hard drive

[polymerizedrecords]

Linus, this is your LTT community. We like water cooled laptops and hard drives, so I'm pretty sure 99% of your subscribers know how to do this. You should have done something else to it - maybe a Linux instal, maybe ram upgrade and component cleaning.

[JhonnyMichel]

I came back here to see Luke's package

[Calyx]

I don't like the new thumbnail style

[Seiftechie]

"they leave nothing to your imaginations"

[nickwillard]

Here's how to revive an old laptop:

1. Install an SSD
2. Add more RAM
3. Replace the keyboard if it is user replaceable
4. Add a higher resolution screen if you can (Like the dell latitude e64x0's or the thinkpad t4x0's)
5. Either add a fresh install of windows, or install a less resource intensive OS
6. Get a new battery
Anything I missed? Let me know because I'm genuinely curious.

[TheodoreMauros]

Bring the old non-clickbaity thumbnails with text back.

[FFFF]

I came here for the gray sweatpants reference. I came.

[ziiichu]

"Revive your old laptop" swaps hard drive and thats cool

[JHA]

I don't like where LTT is going. What are these thumbnails? I mean, why is there water in the thumbnail when the video is literally how to install an SSD? I thought this would be about water damage or something. And the video quality seems to have gone down too. Constant buzzing in the audio too and the video quality didn't seem so great either. I get it, click bait gets views, but it just seems desperate and low quality. Maybe it's just because it's been the holidays, but I hope this isn't the direction this channel is going.

[ChrisD]

why even make this video surely everyone knows they can stick an ssd in things

[paulgarcia]

"Revive your old laptop" Oh cool what creative or interesting thing are they going to do? Replaces HDD with SSD -_-

[buck]

Im supposed to be watching this video but this one ad keeps kicking my ass

[SimplyMagicHD]

Thought it was going to be an overkill video where you somehow manage to put a gtx 1060 or some other crazy shit in the laptop

[childdecimator]

I love how the "package" is the most watched part of the video by a lot

[ShazyShaze]

Surely if you're going to revitalize old hardware, you could suggest switching to a lightweight linux-based operating system, like Lubuntu? Those run way better on older machines than Windows, and it's free...

[Czxvkq]

I was expecting a bit more than "just swap out the HDD for an SSD".