What Laptop Replacement?

[fossyant]

Well.

Good buy.

You got the machine.

SSD is a solid state drive, a bit like a memory card, but if used to install your Windows on and just the key software, it's like OMFG - super fast load times.

Time will tell on drive life, but ive had numerous normal drives fail too quickly.

Use the SSD for Windows etc. Install programmes on the traditional drive. Anything you need to keep, save that on the older traditional drive with backups.

SSD's are seriously fast... I was nearly tempted with our rather fast HP laptop, on purchase was up and going at 20 seconds, but over a year, with games, went to 2 plus minutes on Windows 8.1

Upgraded to Windows 10, and it's usable from boot in 20 seconds..... not worth moving to SSD.

 

[slowmotion]

SSDs do have a limited life, the way they work means that they gradually lose capacity over time. They are designed to cope with that to a certain extent but they will not last as long as a cared for hard disk.

Lenovo have been in a bit of trouble recently for putting software on their machine that can be used to monetise their customers. You could call it spyware. And my wife's & daughter's Lenovos were forever losing screws from the bottom of the case.

Think about what you want the machine for, if you're only using the internet and writing letters you don't need as fast a machine as you'd need for graphic manipulation.

As others have said, it depends how your old machine died. If the hard disk was getting a bit dodgy you could revive it and get your data off using something like this. I've used it on a number of machines and while it may tak a while it is certainly effective.

BTW, my wife bought an HP to replace the Lenovo.

^^^^^^This!
Every time you access a bit of solid state memory, it ages. It has a limited life, just like anything else. Whatever you decide, get yourself an external hard drive to put stuff on. You can get 2TB for not much more than fifty quid.

 

[FrankCrank]

....recently got an Asus fifteen incher. Matt screen was a must, and had them install an SSD - using HD as an external drive. Very snappy performance ........

 

[marknotgeorge]

If anyone's thinking of upgrading the HDD to an SSD, you can get caddies that fit in the optical drive bay to take the old hard drive. That way you still have the capacity of the HDD, so you can get away with a smaller SDD. You can put the optical drive in an external case should you need it - I've not bothered, yet.

 

[FrankCrank]

If anyone's thinking of upgrading the HDD to an SSD, you can get caddies that fit in the optical drive bay to take the old hard drive. That way you still have the capacity of the HDD, so you can get away with a smaller SDD. You can put the optical drive in an external case should you need it - I've not bothered, yet.

....good call, ought to do that one as well, already got an external OD so don't need one on the new laptop......

 

[GrumpyGregry]

When my light and sexy laptop went pop one evening in Stockholm I bought a Lenovo Z50-75.

It is big and heavy but was dirt cheap (and came ready loaded with a virus!). It's fast enough for me, has a decent keyboard (once I got stickers to cover the Swedish keys up with). Runs windows 10 a treat.

I'd echo the advice given above - clean the vents and re-apply heat paste every three years or so.