I have a 10 year old Samsung NC10 or N110 netbook and it was just getting horrendously slow. I mean watch the paint dry slow!
So I started investigating how to speed it up and managed to locate and fit 2Gb RAM Memory, it helped "but" it was still slow
So I did some more digging and found out that the "defining specs" for a netbook are basically it's a small laptop with 2GB Ram maximum After 2Gb RAM it becomes a laptop apparently (from those in the PC business)
So I have a neat Well built Netbook and I could ride to Belfast and back before it completes an operation
I did not keep the Win10 OS that it had upgraded itself to many moons back Which If I had kept it it would have been a more equal test but it was still horrendously slow on Vista!!!!
But Bought Win 7 Pro (ISO) and licence off a legit seller and I bought a 120GB SSD I went for the Western Digital Green 120GB it had good write and read speeds and was not the most expensive in the world at £30 ish
Put it all together and launched the setup from a Microsoft application that allow you to boot and install the ISO from the USB
Result ??? Amazing! Much much quicker
Was it tedious ? Not really the ISO install from a USB is quite fast compared to the previous builds I did many moons ago for XP
What is laborious is doing the Updates and adding what you want
"But" once its built I will do another ISO of the disc before I use it so that its al there
All I have to do is burn that to the disc and its all done in one shot "Except updates! "
So Yes for about £85 I have a fully usable netbook where I am sure of the build and no back doors!
So I started investigating how to speed it up and managed to locate and fit 2Gb RAM Memory, it helped "but" it was still slow
So I did some more digging and found out that the "defining specs" for a netbook are basically it's a small laptop with 2GB Ram maximum After 2Gb RAM it becomes a laptop apparently (from those in the PC business)
So I have a neat Well built Netbook and I could ride to Belfast and back before it completes an operation
I did not keep the Win10 OS that it had upgraded itself to many moons back Which If I had kept it it would have been a more equal test but it was still horrendously slow on Vista!!!!
But Bought Win 7 Pro (ISO) and licence off a legit seller and I bought a 120GB SSD I went for the Western Digital Green 120GB it had good write and read speeds and was not the most expensive in the world at £30 ish
Put it all together and launched the setup from a Microsoft application that allow you to boot and install the ISO from the USB
Result ??? Amazing! Much much quicker
Was it tedious ? Not really the ISO install from a USB is quite fast compared to the previous builds I did many moons ago for XP
What is laborious is doing the Updates and adding what you want
"But" once its built I will do another ISO of the disc before I use it so that its al there
All I have to do is burn that to the disc and its all done in one shot "Except updates! "
So Yes for about £85 I have a fully usable netbook where I am sure of the build and no back doors!