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Hold-Ma-Beer
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So, I own a lenovo IdeaPad Flex 10 and looking to upgrade the HDD to SSD. Here are it's specs:

Intel Celeron N2807 @1.58GHz boost to 2.15GHz

2GB DDR3 (Non expandable)

Windows 10 SL (Upgraded from 8.1)

 

It still has a decent battery backup and cools passively. I'll be using this for my college because its very portable. 

 

It has a 500Gb HDD, and I'll be upgrading it to a 120GB Crucial BX500. I won't do anything other than light coding, email and pdf work (I've a above average desktop for heavy tasks) 

 

IS IT WORTH IT?

 

I cannot gather anymore money, don't even try to convince me for 240GB...

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Sure, but I mean if you're in the US, a 240GB SSD is literally $4 more (by Amazon prices)

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6 minutes ago, Hold-Ma-Beer said:

2GB DDR3 (Non expandable)

If you really must use this laptop, then the SSD will help a bit in getting around this RAM.

It's still going to be very slow loading windows and running web browsers.

 

A used laptop with expandable memory would be much better value, at a bit higher cost. You could sell this one to help offset that.

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5 minutes ago, Slottr said:

Sure, but I mean if you're in the US, a 240GB SSD is literally $4 more (by Amazon prices)

I believe OP is buying in India

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5 minutes ago, svmlegacy said:

If you really must use this laptop, then the SSD will help a bit in getting around this RAM.

It's still going to be very slow loading windows and running web browsers.

 

A used laptop with expandable memory would be much better value, at a bit higher cost. You could sell this one to help offset that.

Actually, this laptop does daily tasks such as loading webpages, browsing, emails fairly easily, unless PESTERED by windows.

The CPU usually stays near 60-70, but some tasks like "Anti malware service executable", "Registry", "System host local service" etc take lots of processing power because the HDD is so slow. (Background things ain't done in time - What I meant to say)

 

And if it does not work out well, I'll take my sister's old Sony Vaio, (Put the SSD into that!)

i5-2430M

Geforce 410M

4GB expandable

Active cooling....

 

But its the last resort

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1 minute ago, Hold-Ma-Beer said:

Actually, this laptop does daily tasks such as loading webpages, browsing, emails fairly easily, unless PESTERED by windows.

The CPU usually stays near 60-70, but some tasks like "Anti malware service executable", "Registry", "System host local service" etc take lots of processing power because the HDD is so slow. (Background things ain't done in time - What I meant to say)

 

Ubuntu might help. significantly less intrusive with background tasks, and most Linux versions are great for simple web browsing anyways. Ubuntu is super user friendly as well, and you can use Gnome Tweak Tool to customize it if you really want to.

I WILL find your ITX build thread, and I WILL recommend the SIlverstone Sugo SG13B

 

Primary PC:

i7 8086k - EVGA Z370 Classified K - G.Skill Trident Z RGB - WD SN750 - Jedi Order Titan Xp - Hyper 212 Black (with RGB Riing flair) - EVGA G3 650W - dual booting Windows 10 and Linux - Black and green theme, Razer brainwashed me.

Draws 400 watts under max load, for reference.

 

How many watts do I need? ATX 3.0 & PCIe 5.0 spec, PSU misconceptions, protections explained, group reg is bad

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1 minute ago, Hold-Ma-Beer said:

Actually, this laptop does daily tasks such as loading webpages, browsing, emails fairly easily, unless PESTERED by windows.

The CPU usually stays near 60-70, but some tasks like "Anti malware service executable", "Registry", "System host local service" etc take lots of processing power because the HDD is so slow. (Background things ain't done in time - What I meant to say)

 

And if it does not work out well, I'll take my sister's old Sony Vaio, (Put the SSD into that!)

i5-2430M

Geforce 410M

4GB expandable

Active cooling....

 

But its the last resort

Have you considered running an OS like Puppy Linux? I find it to be much more useable than Windows with such limited memory. If you do try it, make sure to set up a paging file, or you'll run into issues like Firefox running out of RAM.

The HDD is slow because the memory is constantly paging to it, which complicates matters.

Main: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D, Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti, 16 GB 4400 MHz DDR4 Fedora 38 x86_64

Secondary: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G, 16 GB 2667 MHz DDR4, Fedora 38 x86_64

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Home Laptop: Intel Core i5-L16G7, 8 GB 4267 MHz LPDDR4x, Windows 11 Home 22H2 x86_64

Work Laptop: Intel Core i7-10510U, NVIDIA Quadro P520, 8 GB 2667 MHz DDR4, Windows 10 Pro 22H2 x86_64

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Switching to another OS might be a good idea, I also have tough screen by the way..

Anyways, so 120GB BX500 will do right?

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22 minutes ago, Hold-Ma-Beer said:

Switching to another OS might be a good idea, I also have tough screen by the way..

Anyways, so 120GB BX500 will do right?

would work fine for a budget laptop

I WILL find your ITX build thread, and I WILL recommend the SIlverstone Sugo SG13B

 

Primary PC:

i7 8086k - EVGA Z370 Classified K - G.Skill Trident Z RGB - WD SN750 - Jedi Order Titan Xp - Hyper 212 Black (with RGB Riing flair) - EVGA G3 650W - dual booting Windows 10 and Linux - Black and green theme, Razer brainwashed me.

Draws 400 watts under max load, for reference.

 

How many watts do I need? ATX 3.0 & PCIe 5.0 spec, PSU misconceptions, protections explained, group reg is bad

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