On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 23:17 +1300, RussellMc wrote:
> >
> > > - Windows 10 will run on it(!)
> >
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> I (sincerely) hope that W10 will run better on it than W8.1 does on a
> typical HP netbook with 1 GB of RAM.
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> I have 3 netbooks with XP Pro, Win 7, Win 8.1
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> Each came with that OS installed.
> I do not recall what processor each has, but the W8.1 version is the
> newest, and makes treacle look fast.
> I keep thinking I should try readyboost (so easy to do or downgrade the O=
S
> but neither has happened so far.

FWIW I have a laptop that I was ready to give up on. Beautiful (cheap)
machine, nice screen, good touchscreen (Asus X202E with B800 Intel
Celeron), but the thing CRAWLED (win8.1).

Every time I brought it out of standby the harddrive would thrash for
minutes at a time, bringing the whole machine to a standstill. Fresh
booting would help a little, but booting took forever.

For "fun", I built another win8.1 machine and after a few days noticed
the same symptom: thrashing of the HD after coming out of standby.=20

Looking online it appears that's just what Win8.1 does, it really kills
performance.

Since the HD in the machine started to show SMART errors, I decided to
replace it. I replaced it with a 256GB SSD (Crucial MX100 I think).

When I powered the machine the first time I almost fell over. The
difference wasn't night and day. The difference was zombie/vampire
apocolypse vs. the garden of Eden.

The machine feels so much faster it's astonishing. I used to only keep
one app open at a time, and would regularly close tabs on my browser in
the hope of keeping performance up.

Now I don't even consider that sort of stuff.

I'd recommend swapping every spinning rust disk drive you have that's
used as an OS drive with an SSD, your life depends on it... :)

TTYL

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