

replacing the CPU with an used i5-520m (same CPU family but about 30-40% faster)Ĭonsidering the battery is also dead and the psu is dying the total cost for this refresh would be approx 135. adding an SSD drive to run W7 from (DVD drive swap) RAM is fine since I've never encountered shortage of memory. The problems are: absolutely utterly slow HDD and CPU. It's fine for what I do but I feel it's often sluggish for web browsing and when you use multiple apps at once.

I use it for studying, web surfing/youtube and working on websites (coding) and light photoshop. I have an old laptop from 2010 with Intel Pentium P6100, 4GB DDR3 RAM, awful integrated graphics, 320GB 5400rpm HDD. So I trying to understand what to do here.
