Project laptop

[kaiju_wars]

So I got this laptop from a friend.  It's an old Acer Aspire 4330.  
This laptop has... issues, to say the least.  Anyways, I've actually had this laptop for about a year and a half.  It's been sitting in a drawer doing nothing.  Today, I've decided to fix it up, it's a new project laptop.  I'm going to see how much I can push this.

Anyways, The specs are a single core Celeron 575 @ 2GHz, obviously the fastest CPU ever.  512MB of DDR2 RAM, Intel integrated graphics, 120GB HDD, and Windows Vista Home Basic.

Yeah, not sitting pretty at all.  

And as you can see from the photos, it ain't clean looking at all:

Pretty dirty.  So here's what I've done so far.

I cleaned the laptop:

Looks much better now, so then I upgraded the RAM to 2GB.  Not a lot of RAM still, but hell of a lot better than 512MB.  

Anyways, at first I tried to use Windows Vista, and, it wasn't great.  It ran okay, don't get me wrong, but it wasn't an amazing experience.

Acer even had this cool wallpaper that'd play showing off the Aspire 4330 line, and it lagged on this machine, bad.  This is a screensaver made by Acer for this laptop, and it ran like shit.

Also, Google Chrome isn't supported on Vista anymore.

 

So I went to Intel ARK.  What do you know, the 575 is a 64-bit CPU.  

So I loaded Windows 10 on here, 64-bit.  It.. installed, but it's extremely slow.  Obviously the next thing to do would be to run Cinebench.
Here's the score from this single core power house.

37.

Obviously the best score ever.

Anyways, I stripped down the laptop and cleaned out a bunch of dust from inside the fan.

This CPU uses Socket P, so theoretically I can upgrade the CPU.  I think I'll try that. 

I'm not getting a CPU over $5 and I'm shooting for a Core 2 Duo, I'll see what happens there.

The trackpad is also dead, though, it has to use an external mouse.  The F key is also missing, but if you touch the contact, it'll still type, so there's that.

Anyways, this is looking to be a fun project.

 

Side note, it took about 25ish minutes to complete the CPU test on Cinebench.

[themctipers]

that actually might be better than my core duo laptop, that is 32 bit ..

also yours has a battery, and wifi, and display dimming

[kaiju_wars]

Just now, themctipers said:

that actually might be better than my core duo laptop, that is 32 bit ..

also yours has a battery, and wifi, and display dimming

WiFi, yes, display, yes.  Battery, it's shit, doesn't hold a charge.

[themctipers]

Just now, kaiju_wars said:

WiFi, yes, display, yes.  Battery, it's shit, doesn't hold a charge.

its a slight upgrade from core duo i think, even though its single core

 

[kaiju_wars]

Just now, themctipers said:

its a slight upgrade from core duo i think, even though its single core

 

IDK if it is, lol.  Run Cinebench and see what happens.

[themctipers]

Just now, kaiju_wars said:

IDK if it is, lol.  Run Cinebench and see what happens.

32 bit, doesn't even support cinebench 

[kaiju_wars]

Just now, themctipers said:

32 bit, doesn't even support cinebench 

Wait, didn't know Cinebench wouldn't run on 32-bit CPUs

 

[themctipers]

Just now, kaiju_wars said:

Wait, didn't know Cinebench wouldn't run on 32-bit CPUs

 

yes