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My neighbor's comment about his 2008 laptop made me rethink my whole setup

He was outside with it, said he just put in a cheap solid state drive and doubled the ram for under fifty bucks. He told me, 'It runs faster than my kid's new one now.' I always figured old computers were just slow and done. Now I'm looking at my own ten year old desktop, thinking maybe I should try to fix it up instead of shopping. Has anyone else done a simple upgrade like that and been shocked?
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williams.sage
I always thought old PCs were junk until I saw that. Scott.harper is right, a cheap SSD really does make them feel brand new.
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scott.harper
scott.harper1mo agoMost Upvoted
Actually, that's a great point about old hardware. Just a small thing though, doubling the RAM on a really old machine can sometimes hit a limit set by the motherboard. But a cheap SSD is almost always a game changer.
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ward.emery
ward.emery1mo ago
Yeah @scott.harper, that motherboard limit is real, but even a small SSD makes old stuff feel new.
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