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Post by tbird on Aug 10, 2019 8:41:49 GMT -6
I had to give up my good laptop, so now I am using an old one, which is fine it was free and I like the keyboard  I am going to try and see how much I can speed her up, first is the extra 4gb of ram, and after looking at some power consumption numbers possibly a CPU upgrade (its a first gen i3) and I think I can get a i5, maybe even an i7 in it, according to the chipset it should work. Finally I am curious if anyone has any long term experience with new SSD's I heard they had reliability issues with older ones when used as the solo hard drive. I also have read that newer ones are much better....anyone have any experience with them?? If I can double the ram, get a much faster CPU, and add an ssd it will probably be faster then my newer one lol. |
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Post by tbird on Aug 10, 2019 22:23:21 GMT -6
So after a bit of research turns out I can go to a i5 580m its a significant increase in performance and has the same TDP, but I was wondering what If I went with a 680m or higher they have a higher TDP but if it's just an increase in power then there are generic power adapters for laptops with differing power levels. They are also very cheap so I may buy a faster cpu and just try...
On the original question has anyone any experience with SSD's?
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Post by tbird on Aug 12, 2019 19:05:16 GMT -6
After a bit more research looks like I am going to purchase a i7 640m, and it should work, same socket, same TDP, much faster. I am going to hold off on the SSD until I do more reading online.
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Post by n00b on Aug 13, 2019 15:18:06 GMT -6
Hey tbird I don't have any experience with an SSD since I have a really old computer but the speed of the hard drive will only effect how fast programs load but wont really effect how fast they execute unless you are using space on your drive as virtual memory. Boot time is not that much of a problem on linux but windows users would probably notice a drastic increase. |
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Post by tbird on Aug 13, 2019 18:14:17 GMT -6
I completely agree, the loading time is the benefactor there with an SSD. I wouldn't notice much difference in Linux. I thought it would help out windows but windows 7 is a lot faster then windows 10 was on my previous laptop, so it is not super important.
Now I have RCBasic installed again on both os's I can code again!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2019 13:01:27 GMT -6
I don't have any experience with SSD, too. At the moment I'm using Porteus on my cheap 5 years old laptop and it starts in 10 sec. So, the question is - if I was using a powerful machine with SSD then would Porteus be starting in 1 sec.? Wow - almost as fast as Commodore 64!  I would definitely enjoy that.  |
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Post by tbird on Aug 17, 2019 17:23:22 GMT -6
I don't have any experience with SSD, too. At the moment I'm using Porteus on my cheap 5 years old laptop and it starts in 10 sec. So, the question is - if I was using a powerful machine with SSD then would Porteus be starting in 1 sec.? Wow - almost as fast as Commodore 64! I would definitely enjoy that. Maybe faster lol! I have never heard of Porteus, I will have a look see. The SSD idea is on the backburner for now, ram and processor is a must . |
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I would definitely enjoy that. 