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I've recently bought a Lenovo x230 (i5, 8GB RAM) from 2012. I stuck a 256GB MSATA drive (from eBay for £60ish) in it and put Win10 on it and it runs fine. Proper fast.
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Cheers.
That sort of decides it. For not a huge amount more I could get something a bit less old that could run W10 whereas the current laptop will always have to be linux.... no bad thing TBH as I'm always amazed how well lubuntu works especially since discovering you can save libreoffice files as MS ones. Still nice to have the choice.
I guess if I see a super cheap SSD come up for ~£40 that would be worth it.
@hamrack - good point.
hugo7
Does the forum think it's worth spending ~£60 on SSD* for an 7yo laptop with 3GB RAM** running lubuntu? Or is it better to put that money towards a 2014-15 ultrabook that already has an SSD and can probably run Windows 10?
*Crucial BX300 240GB SATA 2.5 SSD
**upgrading RAM is too expensive.