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How to Speed Up and Upgrade an Old, Slow Laptop
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ส.ค. 2024
- How to Speed Up and Upgrade an Old, Slow Laptop
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Want to speed up a old laptop? well with these simple upgrades, you can boost performance of any old laptop by upgrading to SSD solid state drive and Memory (RAM) and upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10. Old laptops have mechanical hard drives which run at 5600 RPM which is pretty slow, this laptop I am upgrading only had 4GB of RAM upgraded to 8GB.
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Upgrading your old laptop is a awesome way of giving it a new lease of life and its pretty cheap to do.
how to choose ram for exsting computer can you make a video on that....if it possible.. thank you..:)
Thanks for watching
@@adithyaraj307 best you open the door take note of the specs, putting more ram in my laptop with windows did not make much difference, but an ssd did, but when i installed the extra ram with linux it was noticably faster
@samantha tang i have windows for workgroups if you want it its on a lot of 5 and a quarter inch floppies though
I've upped the ram and fitted a SSD to one of my old laptops as you have done, it really is an easy and cheap fix. Excellent video..
Thanks John
@samantha tang That's the advantage of upgrading yourself, it's called freedom of choice...
Here from your video on scanning and editing a document. You've done a great favour to me and many others by making that video. You've earned a subscriber. It's really nice to see you still making videos:)
Great video Brian, thanks. Don.
For any one who wants to know the name of the device Brian is using to transfer the data from the hard drive, its a Sata to USB 3.0 adapter.
Thanks for sharing
On my laptop, which is of a similar age and spec. to the one in the video, there are only USB2 ports. Would it be torrect to assume that a SATA to USB3 adaptor would still work in a USB2 port albeit much more sloooooooooooooowly than in a USB3 port?
@@billfawcett3691 yes
Great info - thanks Brian!
Cheers John
Great tutorial, thank you 👍
You're welcome.
I have the same laptop, have done the same upgrade and run lightweight linux on it to do basic work, text, spreadsheet, some statistics and internet applications. It is super nice!
Great advice Bri
Cheers Daz
Talk about a RELEVANT video, i watched that entire presentation on the EXACT model of laptop he was working on!!!!...lol
Thanks
Nice and easy upgrade and doesn't have to be limited to laptops, easy upgrade for any computer just makes more sense on laptops :)
Yeah super easy upgrade
Hello sir i am very pleased to see you are back. Or at least i just noticed . Either way yaaaaaaahhhh!!!
Another great video. Do you have a video on testing an older computer to determine if it is worth upgrading. Showing which software to use to check performance like disk speed, cpu speed, memory speed and video speed. Thanks and have a great day.
did some test on another laptop upgrade video I done a while ago, upgraded, cpu, ram and ssd and done tests.
Awesome. any hints how I could find that show?
Love your videos bro
Thanks for watching
thanks like you said i guess it is what it is an old pc just to be used for some movies and you tube vids thumbs up
Do you have to add the same memory brand when adding more sticks like you did or just add whatever same spec, etc
Great video Brian. If you want it to run quicker, put a lightweight Linux Distro onto it like Peppermint, Linux Mint or Lubuntu.
I'm watching on a 2007 Sony Vaio which had Vista on it originally. It has a 128 GB SSD, 8GB RAM running the latest Linux Mint 19.2. The boot up time is 25 seconds and shuts off in 10 secs. Runs beautifully, quick and very stable. The Distro includes Libre Office, Gimp which is a Photoshop alternative and all the software you could possibly want, and it's all Open Source. You can't really expect to run the latest games on an old laptop, but for email and web browsing it's ideal. The good thing is, it will not slow down as Windows does with age.
Yeah I agree, Linux would be great on this Laptop.
mine one is a 2009 vaio with an i5 2400 120 ocz ssd and 6 gb ram, took out the cd and installed the old 500 gb drive there and glued the green cd cover to the cheap chinese carrier, looks like it has never been changed, running mint cinnamon 17.3 plus photoshop and illustrator, it loads as fast as my hp i7 desktop running windows 10 on fast boot, i altered some of the system files so i can run the laptop with the lid closed, which is handy for casting , switch sound between hdmi and headphones, on windows once it had the hdmi cable in it cut off the headphone jack, and turn keyboard backlight on off on with hotkeys, still running the original battery but i only get about 2 and a half hours i was going to splash out the $120 for a new battery, but since i have moved a desktop into the bedroom, with remote power on and a k830 keyboardi i dont use it that much now
@@debeeriz running Adobe software, through Wine?
@@badger67 yes, photoshop has 1 small bug, and is completey usable but illustrator is a bit of a gamble
Hello
you made me think to clone the hard drive to the very thin dia I like the ssd I thought the machine as a kind of toaster. thank you..
windows 10 pro.
i got one of those ssd's for a good budget buy post was about a week to me in the UK btw i was looking at getting a nvme ssd to connect to where the wi fi card is tho i couldn't be sure if i could use it for os boot from it or not on my old Dell 2010 laptop so just stuck wiv linux n 4gb ram n just as you say it runs smooth as even with old hdd. oh n the ssd is really fast on my old desktop pc that i play games on :)
no pressure or rush just wondering if you have ever done a vid comparing firefox to chrome cause of my download speed problem i installed firefox im noticing its faster download speed and when i bring up my task manager lower on cpu memory and disk just a suggestion :0
Hey Brian can you do one on old tablets on up gradeing them ,ive got the same laptop and did the same to it ,but it doesnt compare to my I7 hp ...lol
I did the same thing as you described (I have a Dell Inspiron 1525) and the BIOS recognizes the new hard drive (180 gig) but when going thru windows device manager it only has the original memory size (80 gig). Any idea how to fix that issue? I also have a 1 TB HD that I would love to install but wasn't sure if the motherboard could handle it. Would it be possible?
Hi got myself an old notebook UL series(UL20A) runnimg on window 7 appreciate if i could upgrade or change a few parts to run win10. Thxs..
That's a perfect laptop for Linux Mint! Perfect!!
Yeah, Linux would work a treat on that laptop
samantha tang I thought the same until I installed it, it runs smooth and fast, in my 60’s and 1 month in, so far so good.
@@johnmansell5097 I've been running linux for a number of years, it isn't that hard, just different.
Wow A3? Only going to get so fast. Video has good advise.
I got a new laptop last Christmas with Win 10 Pro and still had my 7 year old ThinkPad e530 with an I5-3210 CPU. I got a 480 GB Inland SSD from MicroCenter to replace the HDD and upped the Ram to 8 GB because a techie friend of mine some DDR3 RAM he gave me. I also spent $45 on a new third party battery because the original battery was pretty flat. The new battery that gives me 3-4 hours of battery life. That's about right for an older laptop without a U-Series processor.
The old e530 had Win 7 on it and I knew Win 7 was ending support soon. I figured Win 10 would push the CPU, so I thought about Linux. I did research and asked r/thinkpad on Reddit to help me find a Linux distro as a total Linux noob. I settled on Linux Mint Cinnamon. It looks like Win 7 and is stable without a big learning curve. All I had to do was get Ubuntu specific wi-fi driver (Mint is uses Ubuntu as its base) and I was good. Everything else worked out of the box.
The e530 only uses 2 gigs when I am watching TH-cam at 480p and it's 25 seconds to the desktop from a cold boot. The old ThinkPad is a backup machine that I use for word processing and web surfing. So my upgrades have added a few years to an old laptop.
My laptop is just for writing, so it doesn't have to be gaming fast. I added another 4GB of RAM for a total of 8GB. I already had a couple 1TB SSD's in my parts box, so replaced the 320GB hard drive with the first 1TB SSD. Then I took out the CD drive and replaced it with a second 1TB SSD in a caddy.
very nice upgrades.
@@Britec09 Thank you. I noticed my laptop's battery lasts a little longer without the spinning rust. SSD's are totally awesome. I just upgraded my main desktop with a RX 5700 XT, Ryzen 7 3800X, and 32GB of CL 16 3600 Mhz G.Skill Trident Z Neo ram. Now I'm ready to play Minecraft. LOL
can you also upgrade the gpu?
i have a HP 6730B and the gpu as it is doesent go higher than direct x 9
and i would love to know if its upgradable ------> upgraded the memory from 2 gb to 8 gb
as always .......love the channel and it boggles the mind why you havent have over a million subs by now ;)
Gpu on laptops are usually soldered on or part of the cpu...
i have an older hp/compaq 6530s laptop since 10 years now and bought it when it was first released in 2009. works fine and to all: the golden word for speeding up older laptops is RAM :-D Upgrade it to the MAX if possible since, like in my case, DDR2 RAM, is now much cheaper than 10 years ago and there are still plenty around.
I upgraded mine to 6 (max is 8gb) and it is totally different now. runs Windows 8 pro, very smoothly, it has and old intel core duo with 2.10 ghz and is totally usable. The graphics performance really sux though (intel mobile 4 series .) and it has trouble with opengl but some games from that era run OK but on the LOWEST settings, like COD4, Fallout 3, bioshock or even Arma 1 etc. so, again: it is not so much the CPU it is the RAM RAM RAM that is much more important and if you can install a SSD, that's even better of course, it will give you a boost in performance ;:D. No need to buy a new laptop every year, really ;-)
I've upgraded my acer aspire 5920g ram and storeage.
4gb memory
240gb storeage
I'm running Windows 7 professional 64 bit..
Just wondering if Windows 10 would run smoothly..
I think 4GB on Windows 10 is a bit low, but there site says it will run Windows 10. Might want to upgrade to more memory
@@Britec09 maximum of ram I can add is 4gb, I upgraded from 2gb.
@@Britec09 bro is there a 4gb ram ddr2 for laptop that cheap?
So, I would like to do this to my rarely used but sometimes essential laptop. There is a program I use on it that will not run on W10 but I must be able to use that program until at least April/May 2020. If I upgrade now including cloning my current drive and updating to W10, would I be able to have W7 on one drive and W10 on the other both operating - at different times of course - with the same W7 original keycode? I could of course hold off on the W10 upgrade until march but the risk will be that it will no longer be free at that time?
Download the Win 10 files and install them later. Or now, on a cheap SSD, which you can use in the future as your system drive. This is easiest to do if you have at least temporary access to a desktop.
@@Ndlanding Thanks for your reply, I have a desktop too which is my main PC and I had considered that. My concern is that 1. If I don't activate the W10 download with my W7 Keycode now (Or soon) then I won't be able to do it for free later. And 2. If I do that now and activate the W10 then I will not be able to use my W7 as it will have the same code and one or both may be blocked by Microsoft.
@@raydavison2972 Someone I know (ahem!) has never consciously bought Windows. OK, WinXP came on a laptop he bought, but desktops? Nah. He builds 'em himself and runs his DL'd Win 7 then that Daz loader thingy he told me about. NEVER has he had a prob in the last 90 million years, approx. And that soldier was... (Deck of Cards) LOL.
@@Ndlanding Interesting friend you have there!
My laptop is so slow to open anything, I have to wait an age for even the Home page to open, I have a MSI CR620 ,with a Core i3-370M processor, it has 1g+2g of ram and a 320 HDD, which is half full, web pages often show as unresponsive, and my virus checker takes ages to scan the drive, it drives me nuts!
upgrade it
@@Britec09 Thanks, if I upgrade the ram and change the drive to a larger capacity SSD that might do it eh!
@samantha tang nah Windows 7 is losing support next month. Stuff will stop working and it won't get security updates anymore
@samantha tang is this even a serious comment? I can't tell if you are just trolling. Either way, go find a friend and get a hug. You need it.
Also, I don't know you and you don't know me so don't come at me in the comments. You need something better to do than insult people in TH-cam comments
Nice 👍 tho i wish my laptop is as good as that one 😅
Buy them cheap on Ebay
This computer here with a Crucial SSD boots in 26 seconds, it's freak'in amazing ! You can get some good deals on SSD drives on NewEgg.com. I just bought two new Adata SSD for a new Synology NAS drive , now their is a good video idea for you Posted on Facebook Bye for now Cheers
Cheers John
Hello know if you are up to date here in the Netherlands your site no longer works since yesterday
I look into it. Thanks
@@Britec09 works again, TOP
Nice
Thanks
don't go cheap on ssds get a good one good vid.
For what she needs, the SSD I used is fine.
An SSD and 8+ GB of RAM on a 3 or 4 year old laptop will give it another 3 or 4 years for the average user. Fresh install is definitely the way to go.
installed linux, its amazing how much faster my 10 year old laptop is running linux compared to windows 7 and 10, battery life is not as good though
Linux is a good choice for old laptops
@@Britec09 what is the age of Acer Aspire 4530?
Just transfer your photos and music onto Google cloud and free up all that storage and resources lol.
4:54 Four hundred :)
Saying that an Intel is preferable and that having an AMD is the budget option as a casual explaining to a casual audience really does a disservice to the industry in general going forward. Not only is this not true anymore, but now try arguing with a customer or relative and they’ll point to this video as some expert opinion on the matter.
It is a shame.
Never buy a laptop unless it has a socketed cpu
My Hard Drive HDD 😎🙌
Where do I start on this dumpster fire. Let's start on the CPU. AMD CPUs in many cases are better than Intel CPUs. Intel CPUs of the same basic specs of the AMD chip in the laptop have exploits called Meltdown and Spectre that AMD chips don't have. Microsoft issued a software fix for the exploits which actually slow the computer down.
I am not sure why people want to use SSDs for system drives as the system drive is written to constantly and SSDs have a finite times that it can be written to (on some drives that can be as little as 3000 times while others as much as 100000 times). The best use for a SSD is for storage that you are going to write a few times but want faster access to to the data.
Upgrading laptops is not an one size fits all.
George
MCSE and A+
SSDs die when they are written to 3000xFullCapacity, you boomer
George Worley I’m an AMD fanboy, but even their CPUs can be affected by the Spectre bug. Where did you get your garbage MSCE, ya thick dumbass