Installing SSD in "old" laptop?

[Scandinavian]

Hi,
Could my "old" laptop benefit from a SS drive? I heard that older laptops cant get higher speed with SSD installed.
I plan to get a small 40Gb, and use comp just simple tasks like surfing, skype, some picture editing maybe.


The specs of the comp is:

Acer Aspire 4920G-6A1G25Mn Product Specification


Mfr No (AKX0X026)
Processor Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T5750
Processor Detail 2 MB L2Cache, 667MHz FSB
Processor Speed 2000
Amt RAM (MB) 1024
Max RAM (MB) 4096
Type RAM DDR2 667 MHz SDRAM
Chipset Northbridge Intel® PM965 Express chipset
Hard Disk (GB) 250
CDROM Type DVD Super Multi double layer
Graphic Chip ATI
Graphic Chip Detail Radeon™ HD2400 XT
Amt Video RAM (MB) up to 383 MB
LCD Techology WXGA Acer CrystalBrite TFT
Natural Resolution 1280 x 800 พิกเซล
Number of USB Ports 4 x USB 2.0
Card Reader Support 5-in-1
Expansion Device Available S-Video out
Number Of IEEE 1394 Ports 1 ช่อง
Number Of Pc Card Slots 1 PCMCIA 2.1
Sound Hardware Yes
Built-in Microphone Yes
Built-in Speaker Dolby® Home Theater
Modem Include 56K Fax/Modem
Network Include 10/100/1000Mbps
Bluetooth Support Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
Wireless LAN Support Yes
Type Wireless LAN Intel® Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN
Built-in Camera Acer CrystalEye Webcam
Camera Type 1.3 Mega-Pixel
Weight (include batteries) 2.62 kg
Operating System Windows® Vista® Home Premium
Other Acer SignalUp InviLink Nplify wireless technology with 5X Speed Up

Thanks for ideas!

[Butterfly]

the problem will be the SSD driver for your laptop and WinXP, it won't boot

[Thetyim]

^
He isn't running XP

[Butterfly]

then it should downgrade to WinXP as this machine seems quite high in terms of specs so will be screamingly fast

VISTA might be the issue, not the SSD drive

[Scandinavian]

Yes, I run Vista. But want to put 7 in it, but might be hard to find all drivers.

[Marmite the Dog]

But want to put 7 in it, but might be hard to find all drivers.

If it runs Vista it'll run Win7.

[Fondles]

I have the same acer lappy, I had an 80gb intel SSD in it for a while and to be honest it was a waste of money so I pulled it and stuck it in my Samsung netbook.
I had a greater performance increase with jamming some more ram in it (4GB)

Im running win7 64bit ultimate.

[harrybarracuda]

Fondles is right. Windows loves RAM.

Dump Vista and try Win 7. And up your RAM to at least 2Gb.

[Marmite the Dog]

I had a greater performance increase with jamming some more ram in it

But our resident IT expert from France told me that RAM doesn't improve performance!

[Butterfly]

^ it doesn't,

it's all you do is email, and watch porn, 512MB of RAM is more than enough

small cock syndrome force certain users to "upsize" to 2GB to feel good when wanking on online porn

[Fondles]

^ it doesn't,

it's all you do is email, and watch porn, 512MB of RAM is more than enough

small cock syndrome force certain users to "upsize" to 2GB to feel good when wanking on online porn

Some of us actually use computers for things other than online porn (got any links to decent sites) hence my main PC has 24gb of ram installed.

as for 512mb being adequate.... you had best not upgrade to win7 as 1gb is the recommended minimum.

[Butterfly]

you are a PS pro ? if not, then you are a wanker with a small penis problem

and yes let me know what Win7 does that WinXP doesn't

[Fondles]

Whats a PS pro ??

I do a lot of 3D CAD modeling, I like a machine that has some grunt, best part is work paid for it, gotta love being given the corporate CC to go on a shopping spree.

[Spin]

I had an 80gb intel SSD in it for a while and to be honest it was a waste of money

If you were already using a 7200 rpm drive then you might not notice a difference, if you upgrade from 5400rpm or less then for sure you will notice the difference and be pleased with the improvment. faster hard drives speed up notebooks, more ram has always been a disapointment for me.

[Fondles]

Yeah I was using a seagate 7200rpm drive, putting the SSD into my netbook resulted in an amazing increase in performance though.

[Thetyim]

^
Last time I looked at SSD the read speeds were great but the write speeds were average.

[Fondles]

^
Last time I looked at SSD the read speeds were great but the write speeds were average.

Mine has a reported write speed of 100mb/s, no idea idea if it actually does this though.

OCZ sell PCIe SSD's that will write at 1.4gb/s if you really need something speedy.

[Marmite the Dog]

I upgraded the RAM in my laptop (old, shite thing) running W7, from 512 to 1G and the improvement was incredible.

[Butterfly]

I upgraded the RAM in my laptop (old, shite thing) running W7, from 512 to 1G and the improvement was incredible.

of course it was, as 99% of the RAM is used for the pretty Win7 Interface, tool, doesn't mean it will be faster to surf your porn or TD or read your email

tell me again why you can't do with WinXP, you can do on Win7

poseur,

[Marmite the Dog]

tell me again why you can't do with WinXP, you can do on Win7

It tries harder when shit crashes than XP did.

[TizMe]

USB 3.0 support?

[harrybarracuda]

I run Win 7 on a netbook with no Swapfille and it's just fine. I'd have to run Office and SAP to slow the fucker down.

I put a 64Gb Runcore in it, and it's fine. About the only writing I do is from the Internet, and frankly even at the best download speeds, you aren't going to hit a bottleneck with an SSD.

And Windows 7 is far more efficient and stable than XP. Butters took years to learn XP, which is why he's so resistant to moving.

[Butterfly]

XP has best the interface ever, efficient and elegant. Have you seen Win7 interface ? it's like a mac, inefficient and pretty (and gay of course)

knowing that you proved to us before you knew fuck all about Win7 interface, I assume you will not be telling the truth since you keep using that Search function for everything you do on Win7

[Butterfly]

I'd have to run Office and SAP to slow the fucker down.

what version of SAP is that ? doesn't it run using Internet Explorer these days ?

so basically 64GB RAM for Office, porn, and emails ? are you completely retarded ? you should buy a mac instead and stop the non-sense

[Fondles]

so basically 64GB RAM for Office, porn, and emails ? are you completely retarded ? you should buy a mac instead and stop the non-sense

Where did harry say he put 64gb of ram in it ?