Sony VAIO laptop

getmore4less

I have picked up a working Sony Vaio that I am looking at as a background project

Last used around 2015 needs the HDD wiping/removing  if it gets moved on
Think all the keyboard works, battery is probably dead 
Boots, screen looked OK  when old user took off what they wanted from it.

Decent enough spec even though circa 2010 so could come in handy for something.

Sony PCG-71312m/VPCEB1E0E
w7 home premium
i3-330M 2.13
1+2GB DDR3 1066 
320GB  HDD 

My thoughts if there are no gotchas getting these things going with bios or drivers

W10 install  as is,   see how it goes,

check  everything works.

Then look at upgrades

Memory : swap out the 1gb for 2gb(£1 cex)  or if I can find a use for more a 4GB(£8)
SSD : probably worth <= £20 for a 120GB,  bigger if I can think of a use.
Battery : if need mobility ~£25

HereToday

Is there a question or do you just feel like a chat?

The only thing I will suggest is that you should upgrade the Home Premium to Pro or Ultimate before you get started; otherwise you will end up with Windows 10 Home.
You can upgrade easily and for free via Windows Anytime Upgrade.

getmore4less

Not finding how to do the free upgrade to pro/ultimate doing a search got a link to an example please?
Can the move to 10 be done with a clean install and does it have to be done as an upgrade?

HereToday

getmore4less said:

Not finding how to do the free upgrade to pro/ultimate doing a search got a link to an example please?
Can the move to 10 be done with a clean install and does it have to be done as an upgrade?

Can be done with a clean install, using the Genuine Ticket method: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/23354-clean-install-windows-10-directly-without-having-upgrade-first.html

Always nice when someone asks politely. Check your Inbox.

getmore4less

Thanks,  might just get the SSD anyway.
local CEX has a stick of 2gb can collect when passing

DiWil

Our Sony Viao Laptop is also old and crashed so inserted the disks that we downloaded when it was new..They would not work...maybe because it was windows 7 and done the download way back to windows 10....We had a windows 7 disk from a previous desktop PC so downloaded that and it worked pretty good...still using it.

[Deleted User]

i3-330m - 10 year old processor that was low end when released, personally wouldn't bother, it will be painfully slow.

If you insist and want to squeeze some life out of it then get DDR3-1333 instead as this is the fastest memory it will support, get 2x identical memory chips so it will run dual channel - suggest 2x2GB minimum but 2x4GB will help with Win 10. 
Strip it down and clean the fans, heatsinks and replace thermal paste on the processor which will have dried out by now.
Upgrade BIOS firmware before doing your re-install of Windows.
Don't install any bloatware or virus scanners that will paralyse the performance other than Windows Defender
Set the battery options to high performance mode to get the processor running at full belt all the time 

getmore4less

Deleted_User said:

i3-330m - 10 year old processor that was low end when released, personally wouldn't bother, it will be painfully slow.

thanks for the comments
Thought it worth a go don't like seeing old kit scrapped.
 it benchmarks ok against  the E4500   that is in the Inspiron 530 desktop I use and that is plenty fast enough for day to day with DDR2 800/8GB & SSD  but that does have help from an old XFX 8500GT for dual monitors

neilmcl

getmore4less said:

Thanks,  might just get the SSD anyway.
local CEX has a stick of 2gb can collect when passing

Definitely get the SSD first then do a clean install on that.

HereToday

getmore4less said:

Deleted_User said:

i3-330m - 10 year old processor that was low end when released, personally wouldn't bother, it will be painfully slow.

thanks for the comments
Thought it worth a go don't like seeing old kit scrapped.
 it benchmarks ok against  the E4500   that is in the Inspiron 530 desktop I use and that is plenty fast enough for day to day with DDR2 800/8GB & SSD  but that does have help from an old XFX 8500GT for dual monitors

Take no notice. It won't be painfully slow, that's just nonsense. I'm running Windows 10 64-bit on an even older low end processor. There is no waiting for anything to happen other than at power on. Perhaps thirty to forty seconds to fully load. Equally the story with the RAM. You will notice no difference between 1066 and 1333 MHz. Anyway he is wrong about  DDR3-1333 being the fastest it can support. You can fit DDR3 1600 MHz if the modules have 16 chips on them, as opposed to 8.

Either way, the specification of the laptop is fine. The SSD is what will make all of the difference. RAM will make a negligible difference.