Can anyone recommend a laptop?

poppellerant

J_B wrote: »

Are you spying on me?
Mine has X555L on the front and X555LD on the back

Hah, that was a model number from personal experience. Not a bad laptop, but feels a bit bendy for my liking. I guess I have been spoilt by laptops 10 years ago.

mazz1953 wrote: »

I was looking to see if anyone suggested increasing the memory, but no one did so. i would suggest the the OP increase the memory to 8GB or even 16GB, it will definitely make a difference to the speed! eBay has some really great deals on memory.

I think because 4GB would be adequate for most basic tasks. However I do agree that increasing the amount of memory is never a bad thing - especially if using Chrome. :eek:

EveryWhere

mazz1953 wrote: »

I was looking to see if anyone suggested increasing the memory, but no one did so. i would suggest the the OP increase the memory to 8GB or even 16GB, it will definitely make a difference to the speed! eBay has some really great deals on memory.

SSD first, RAM, if needed, second.

pennypincher2013

Hi everyone, I hope you all had a good Christmas and New Year. I have been offline over the festive period and like others, am back in work today. I hope you are still there, I could really do with your help.
The laptop is a HP Pavilion and the model number is RTLD8723DE.
Specs are:
Intel Pentium N3710 quad core processor.
1.6GHz processor speed.
4GB RAM DDR3.
1TB HDD storage.
Hard drive speed 5400RPM.
Microsoft Windows 10.

Many, many thanks!

EveryWhere

pennypincher2013 wrote: »

Hi everyone, I hope you all had a good Christmas and New Year. I have been offline over the festive period and like others, am back in work today. I hope you are still there, I could really do with your help.
The laptop is a HP Pavilion and the model number is RTLD8723DE.
Specs are:
Intel Pentium N3710 quad core processor.
1.6GHz processor speed.
4GB RAM DDR3.
1TB HDD storage.
Hard drive speed 5400RPM.
Microsoft Windows 10.

Many, many thanks!

That one really needs an SSD.

Though we need a product number; https://support.hp.com/th-en/document/c00033108

debitcardmayhem

^^^Posts #2 and #3

donny-gal

Hi Pennypincher. I've done this with my 7yo ASUS. Updated it to max ram, switched the 750gb HDD to a 500 GB SSD. I know that even cleaning with CCleaner, Windows OS gets cluttered np and slows, so did a complete new install of windows, and it has made a major difference to starting up. I also stop what I don't use regularly starting up. Via CCleaner (free of course). I then put the HDD into a caddy so could be use as a usb backup drive, and copied what I needed over to the new drive. For everyday I have one of the tiny usb sticks, which gives me an extra 128gb of storage so don't miss the 750gb. Also did a new install of MS Office 10.
DG

pennypincher2013

EveryWhere wrote: »

That one really needs an SSD.

Though we need a product number; https://support.hp.com/th-en/document/c00033108

I think this is the product number: 15-bs507na

pennypincher2013

donny-gal wrote: »

Hi Pennypincher. I've done this with my 7yo ASUS. Updated it to max ram, switched the 750gb HDD to a 500 GB SSD. I know that even cleaning with CCleaner, Windows OS gets cluttered np and slows, so did a complete new install of windows, and it has made a major difference to starting up. I also stop what I don't use regularly starting up. Via CCleaner (free of course). I then put the HDD into a caddy so could be use as a usb backup drive, and copied what I needed over to the new drive. For everyday I have one of the tiny usb sticks, which gives me an extra 128gb of storage so don't miss the 750gb. Also did a new install of MS Office 10.
DG

I have an old Samsung laptop with Windows Vista. It's been sitting in storage for what feels like forever. Could an SSD and an install of Windows 10 make this laptop usable? I know the kids could do with another laptop for homework instead of sharing.

grumpycrab

pennypincher2013 wrote: »

I think this is the product number: 15-bs507na

Manual is here http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c05493257
2 options I believe. 1. take back cover off (yeuch) and replace hdd with ssd 2. if it has a dvd drive, replace with caddy-containing-ssd
video of back removal (yeuch again) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L5ZTSo-DtE

grumpycrab

pennypincher2013 wrote: »

I have an old Samsung laptop

exact model number needed.