any laptop genius's?

[andy01424]

if you want to speed it clean it if you want it to open faster get an ssd,as for malewarebytes dont find that hungry at all mind you mine is in perm off state and gets run when i feel like it,prob you have any windows is going to take big chunk of what memory it has,now tada i have some old memory laptop sticks ddr and ddr 2, if yours takes ddr2 i know i have 2 of them in 2gb,your welcome to one of them,only downside is i pop on forums quiet rarely now because of work,so may be bit of a wait..

if your just going to use it for surfing bit of printing etc basic no gammes a 120gb ssd will help a lot they have a crucial 120gb in Pc world £44 or Smasung Evo850 120gb £54......you will need to a OS disc or you can download one and make one from MS and cough use a certain tool to register it lol
www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/computing-accessories/components-and-upgrades/internal-data-storage/sandisk-ultra-ii-2-5-internal-ssd-120-gb-10071522-pdt.html
www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/computing-accessories/components-and-upgrades/internal-data-storage/samsung-850-evo-2-5-internal-ssd-120-gb-10116553-pdt.html

or for £84 250gb evo 850
www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/computing-accessories/components-and-upgrades/internal-data-storage/samsung-850-evo-2-5-internal-ssd-250-gb-10116610-pdt.html
or
OCZ Arc 480gb
www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/computing-accessories/components-and-upgrades/internal-data-storage/ocz-arc-100-series-2-5-internal-ssd-240-gb-10100705-pdt.html

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Jul 31, 2015 10:50:38 GMT aaront903 said:

so ive been given a cheap oldish netbook and its a bit slow,anyway i can speed it up?its running windows 7 starter?dont know if thats good as more of a phone or tablet person than a laptop guy

any help appreciated

I got hold of a Samsung netbook a few years back, with the Intel Atom processor. It was running Windows starter edition and was so slow it was almost unusable. I just stuck on Ubuntu and it still works fine.

The Upsides:

1) Faster
2) Loads of free software
3) Nice interface
3) I use it for simple stuff such as web surfing, playing videos and a bit of word processing but I have never had a problem. For word processing I can export out to .doc for word or more often .rtf or just plain text.

Downsides
1) You can't run windows software
2) You can't run anything to heavy (but you won't be able to do that anyway)
3) You have to take a deep breath when you first install!

Nick

Netbooks were originally designed to run Linux, windows is definitely to heavy to run on the older netbooks

[aaront903]

Whats a ubunto

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Aug 1, 2015 8:21:10 GMT aaront903 said:

Whats a ubunto

It is a version of Linux- which means it is free OS

UBUNTU LINK

There are lots of different versions on Linux I used this because it is pretty friendly to use and easy to install and update. There are other versions, but I do not have experience of them - at least not recently!

You can can run it off a USB flash drive to test it first. See if you like it etc. You can do that that without impacting you windows software.

Dell use Ubuntu on some of their laptopsPC World Link
I use version 12 which is the version you should probably look at as it doesn't require the latest graphic capability.

I am sure others here will have some different thoughts

Nick

EDIT - Tech radar has a reviews of 10 different consumer focused versions Tech Radar Article