Raspberry Pi releases an OS to breathe new life into old PCs

Re:Raspberry Pi releases an OS to breathe new life into old PCs by FreeFull on Monday December 26, 2016 @01:55PM (#13259299)

SSDs and extra RAM are the two best upgrades to improve how fast and responsive everything feels.

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Re:Raspberry Pi releases an OS to breathe new life into old PCs by Klathmon on Monday December 26, 2016 @03:30PM (#13259633)

I've found that an SSD is significantly better for most "store bought" computers/laptops.

They advertise "gigahertz", RAM, drive space, and sometimes screen size.

So everything else is left to the cheapest possible part. Updating the 5400 RPM HDD to an SSD has completely changed every single laptop a family member has brought me as "too slow to use".

I've also found it's damn near impossible to buy a cheap laptop with an SSD.

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Re:Raspberry Pi releases an OS to breathe new life into old PCs by squarefoot on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @06:00AM (#13262484)

I would put extra RAM first, then the SSD, just to prevent the OS from abusing the SSD for swapping.

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