Old laptop working after 24+ hrs of fiddling
I have a 9yr old HP laptop that died on me last year. It was old so I bought a new one. Last week came time to do or die for the old one. It would take over 45 min to boot up and be dead slow after...
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This is where a desktop PC would have an advantage for a longer lifespan as it's more readily upgrade-able.
I have a 10-year old DELL Vostro biz desktop core i7 W10 still used as a daily PC. Have upgraded it with 2-SSDs, fast nVidia GeForce graphics card, USB-C/extra USB3 ports, Bluetooth 5.0, and Bluray writer. Basically, maxing out DELL's rather small standard 350-watt PS. Still cold boots into W10Pro in 15-secs. Can easily handle large Photoshop files, and multiple 2K/1080P HD video edit tracks in real-time.
Only switch to a new DELL Alienware laptop if needing to work with 4K video files for real-time edits. Otherwise, the 10-year DELL works fine.
I have a 10-year old DELL Vostro biz desktop core i7 W10 still used as a daily PC. Have upgraded it with 2-SSDs, fast nVidia GeForce graphics card, USB-C/extra USB3 ports, Bluetooth 5.0, and Bluray writer. Basically, maxing out DELL's rather small standard 350-watt PS. Still cold boots into W10Pro in 15-secs. Can easily handle large Photoshop files, and multiple 2K/1080P HD video edit tracks in real-time.
Only switch to a new DELL Alienware laptop if needing to work with 4K video files for real-time edits. Otherwise, the 10-year DELL works fine.
