jajolt Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 (edited) I needed a laptop to travel with, just Internet, no games. Steam but only so I can talk to people. Essentially, I dug up my moms old Dell Inspiron 16000. From like 2003-2005 ish. Intel Celeron M @ 1.30 ghz and 504 mb of RAM. Tiny ass HDD (but I will restore bc there's only 3 gb of free space lol). And XP SP3. I don't know anything about laptops and I'm afraid that if I open it up I might fuck up. But if all goes well I have a faster sloth than before haha. So, basically, is the stuff listed above okay for daily computing on today's standards? EDIT: HDD is 37 gb o.o Edited January 11, 2013 by jajolt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
^TheRumor^ Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 I needed a laptop to travel with, just Internet, no games. Steam but only so I can talk to people. Essentially, I dug up my moms old Dell Inspiron 16000. From like 2003-2005 ish. Intel Celeron M @ 1.30 ghz and 504 mb of RAM. Tiny ass HDD (but I will restore bc there's only 3 gb of free space lol). And XP SP3. I don't know anything about laptops and I'm afraid that if I open it up I might fuck up. But if all goes well I have a faster sloth than before haha. So, basically, is the stuff listed above okay for daily computing on today's standards? EDIT: HDD is 37 gb o.o A RAM upgrade would be ideal, other than that you should be fine from a general computing standpoint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jajolt Posted January 11, 2013 Author Share Posted January 11, 2013 A RAM upgrade would be ideal, other than that you should be fine from a general computing standpoint. Do you think the HDD needs replacing? Basically installing: Steam Google Chrome GIMP TS3 Microsoft Office Camera Shit iTunes Quicktime Etc and by the time thats done I have half or more of my HDD taken up.. But I'm asking you because I don't know lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plaayer Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Do you think the HDD needs replacing? Basically installing: Steam Google Chrome GIMP TS3 Microsoft Office Camera Shit iTunes Quicktime Etc and by the time thats done I have half or more of my HDD taken up.. But I'm asking you because I don't know lol I would suggest doing so. 37gb is not enough. xD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kass Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Definitely upgrade the hard drive and RAM. I've got an old Gateway laptop (before the tri-defecta of E-Machine/Acer/Gateway) that I watch Netflix on at night. Does fantastically well for that even though it's running XP on an old Centrino Duo with 2 GB RAM. Other than that, it sounds fine for just puttering about on the web. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Couch Crumbs Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 It's not that hard to open up a laptop; just use your common sense (plus ground yourself by touching grounded metal/getting an antistatic wriststrap) and you should be fine. While you have it opened up, clean out the dust with a nice compressed air can. As others above me have said, upgrading your ram and that HDD will make this entirely usable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animeking503 Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Maxing out the RAM will make a huge difference. Almost a bigger HDD as you should always have about 20% free for Windows to do its thing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirius Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Maxing out the RAM will make a huge difference. Almost a bigger HDD as you should always have about 20% free for Windows to do its thing Down side of this is, maxing out the ram and upgrading the HD on the unit will likely result in costs that would meet or exceed just purchasing a new cheap laptop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animeking503 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Down side of this is, maxing out the ram and upgrading the HD on the unit will likely result in costs that would meet or exceed just purchasing a new cheap laptop. as long as its not DDR RAM and an IDE HDD, it wouldn't be that bad to upgrade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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