Last year, I upgraded my sister’s Thinkpad G500 with a SSD, which greatly increased its performance. The laptop also suffered from hardware issues because of its faulty DVD drive; removing the drive surprisingly cured it. After this success, I was thinking about improving her boyfriend’s laptop, an HP machine that happened to be slower than… Poursuivre la lecture Will it remain possible to upgrade laptops with SSD?
Étiquette : SSD
A dying laptop
My Lenovo Ideapad Yoga 15 is dying. It happened the second time today, and that’s quite concerning. Suddenly, the machine freezes, keyboard is not responding, the mouse is moving but clicking does nothing. There is no way out other than rebooting, and when I did it, the screen became black with an error message displayed… Poursuivre la lecture A dying laptop
Trying to salvage a lemon
My sister got a Thinkpad G500 from Lenovo pretty much at the same time I purchased my Ideapad Yoga 13 from the same brand. My Ideapad, while suffering from battery life and wi-fi issues and being stuck with a too small SSD, still performs reasonably. It still boots fast and doesn’t exhibit hardware issues. The… Poursuivre la lecture Trying to salvage a lemon
The downsides of SSDs
What’s the point of having a SSD if both Windows 8 and Ubuntu 15.04 introduce artificial timeouts that increase the boot time, making this equivalent as having a standard hard drive? Well, I’m there, I reached that point. Windows 8 often boots fast from EFI to login screen but after I enter my password, it… Poursuivre la lecture The downsides of SSDs
One SSD for my HTPC
A bit more than a month ago, I successfully transferred my dual boot Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 14.04 from two 120Gb Solid State Drives (SSD) to a single 240Gb drive. I got several problems restoring the bootloaders of the two operating systems, thought many times I would have to reinstall, then figured out a way… Poursuivre la lecture One SSD for my HTPC
One SSD instead of two: simpler or not?
My Core i7 machine, named Drake, had two 120Gb SSD drives. I purchased the first one with the machine and put Windows 7 and Ubuntu on it. Then I needed more space to get Mac OS X, so I added a second 120Gb SSD. Mac OS X became a pain, almost unusable because everything was… Poursuivre la lecture One SSD instead of two: simpler or not?