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Question

Buy a new laptop or clean up the old one?! Help!

Mar 16, 2016 7:51PM PDT

I have a 10 year old laptop which is somewhat slow and laggy. I could do some serious clean up and get some of the files out of there to help it out but I'm thinking it might be worth buying a new one at this point. I'll put the specs up and perhaps some knowledgeable soul can give me some advice?

Sony Vaio CR31Z/R
Intel Core2 Duo CPU T8300 @ 2.4GHz
2.0GB RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon X2300

I'm mostly using for Internet browsing/ video streaming and photo editing work on Photoshop.

Cheers guys!

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At 10 years old, I honestly think it's not worth the...
Mar 18, 2016 1:31PM PDT

effort to improve performance on it, unless financial difficulties is holding you back. Any laptop these days will very likely outperform what you have now. Your hardware is probably on it's last leg as well, so even if you got it to perform slightly better by doing some house cleaning on the data side, your hardware may be susceptible to failure as ten years is stretching it. I do hope you are backing up your important data in the event of a catastrophic failure.

I hope this somewhat helps.
-Lee

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I have a laptop similar to that. A 2009 Sony.
Mar 18, 2016 1:51PM PDT
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002PHM0L8 which has 4GB RAM, the 2.2GHz Core2Duo and Intel graphics.

It's HDD had failed a disk test so a 39 dollar 500GB HDD was fitted and the factory restore media put it back to working. The offer for Windows 10 was taken and it's running fine for a machine of that stature. It's now used as a video player for HD and streaming on a 1080p HDTV which seems more than ample for that work.

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core2-Duo-T8300-vs-Intel-Core2-Duo-T6600 shows yours has the better CPU but mine has 4GB RAM and a new HDD.

Tough call.
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New or clean
Mar 18, 2016 7:51PM PDT

Get a can of compressed air.
Give the innards and the vents a good cleaning.

Make your startup group skinny.
Uninstall unneeded progs.

Run a pass of chkdsk and then defrag.

So far your out about 7 bucks and some time.

If your still unhappy with the perf think new.