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
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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