WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:07.040 This is my laptop. And there are many. Well, okay, to be fair, there's actually 00:00:04.640 --> 00:00:11.360 not that many. I don't think ASUS bamboo laptops actually sold that well. But 00:00:09.280 --> 00:00:15.280 this one is mine. And even though I haven't been using it for a while, it's 00:00:13.200 --> 00:00:23.760 been serving my parents well for about a year now. That is to say, well, not 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:29.519 fast. Even though the Core i5 M450, 4 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:31.840 gigs of DDR3 and 1366 by 768 TN screen 00:00:29.519 --> 00:00:36.880 might still be suitable for browsing and word processing and other light tasks. 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:41.360 Back in 2010, most laptops, even thin ones, unless your name was Apple, still 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:47.360 had mechanical hard drives, so doing anything on it, is painfully slow these 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:49.440 days. But sentimental value is a thing. 00:00:47.360 --> 00:00:54.399 And this baby got me through many of video export. Carrying it around campus 00:00:51.360 --> 00:00:56.239 at BCIT between classes, not even able 00:00:54.399 --> 00:01:04.520 to close the lid because my Windows install was so borked. So, I'm not ready 00:00:58.879 --> 00:01:04.520 to put her down just yet. Let's operate. 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:18.080 Tunnel Bear is the simple VPN app that makes it easy to browse privately and 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:21.680 enjoy a more open internet. Try Tunnel Bear for free at the link below. So, 00:01:20.240 --> 00:01:25.040 just in case you didn't catch that, I'm going to install an SSD in here in order 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:28.560 to breathe some new life into it and keep it away from the recycling heaps. 00:01:26.880 --> 00:01:32.320 If you want to see how electronics recycling can actually be devastating to 00:01:31.119 --> 00:01:37.200 the environment, check out this Tech Cookie episode up here. But before we do 00:01:34.960 --> 00:01:41.680 that, let's explore what it's like to use this thing with the hard drive in 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:46.000 it. To give it the best possible performance I could, I've reformatted 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:51.119 the drive. This is a very fresh version of Windows 7. And we'll just try 00:01:48.720 --> 00:01:55.040 restarting it, opening up some programs, just general usability things, which is 00:01:53.280 --> 00:02:00.240 what this laptop would actually be targeted at for now, and see how it 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:04.159 stands up. Restarting the computer took forever. from pressing the restart 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:08.800 button to having Firefox loaded with the line of text homepage on it. Took two 00:02:06.479 --> 00:02:12.239 minutes and 13 seconds and then it didn't get much better from there. Foxit 00:02:10.239 --> 00:02:17.280 reader took a very long time to show up to the point where I was a little bit worried if it was going to show up at 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:21.200 all. Steam I was actually 100% convinced wasn't working and then had switched to 00:02:19.200 --> 00:02:25.760 try to demo something else by the time that it actually freaking loaded. 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:31.599 Loading up any browsers took a really long time, but navigating through 00:02:28.319 --> 00:02:33.440 Windows wasn't too bad. And once you had 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:37.120 a browser actually loaded and you were going through various websites, it did 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:42.879 actually work pretty well because the DDR3 RAM is actually surprisingly fine. 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:47.680 The only thing pulling this laptop down that much is the hard drive. So, time to 00:02:45.519 --> 00:02:55.680 swap it out. What I'm going to swap in is a Vertex 4 128 gig SSD from OCZ, a 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:59.680 company that doesn't even exist anymore. I mean, it's it's advertising into links 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:04.720 on the front. This is actually from a pretty similar era that this laptop is 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:08.560 from, and it costs like 50 bucks off Amazon, so you can get it pretty cheap. 00:03:06.959 --> 00:03:12.959 No big deal. I'm going to throw this in here. Not the best SSD I could if I 00:03:10.959 --> 00:03:18.400 wanted to like really destroy that hard drive. And this one has been used a 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:22.720 bunch and has a ton of clutter on it. So the hard drive had a best case scenario 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:25.840 and the SSD has like a almost worst case scenario. Let's check it 00:03:26.840 --> 00:03:36.959 out. You like this? I actually lost the original tray that I had for um mounting 00:03:33.200 --> 00:03:40.000 my drive in here. So I used a little mod 00:03:36.959 --> 00:03:42.000 by just wrapping up some paper. And I 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:47.280 mean it it actually works completely fine. That was so much better in my 00:03:45.200 --> 00:03:50.879 opinion. It only took one minute and two seconds to go from restart button all 00:03:49.200 --> 00:03:56.319 the way to browser open with the Linus detectives page playing. Opening up any 00:03:53.200 --> 00:03:58.000 program, Foxit, various browsers, Origin 00:03:56.319 --> 00:04:02.959 because I didn't have Steam installed on there. It's not my computer anymore. 00:04:00.239 --> 00:04:07.439 Don't worry about it. Um, it was easy. None of it took very long. I didn't get 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:12.000 frustrated actually trying to figure out if a program was going to open at all 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:17.359 after I clicked on it. It was just there. Perfect. And that's from a very 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:20.000 old laptop. This isn't difficult to do 00:04:17.359 --> 00:04:24.880 either. You saw me swap the SSD in for the hard drive. It was not a complicated 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:28.720 process. And then the Bamboo even has an optical drive. So, if you go to the 00:04:26.479 --> 00:04:32.240 store and try to buy one of those Windows key things that comes with the 00:04:30.479 --> 00:04:37.360 disc, you can even just do it that way. Plain and simple. It's cheap at only 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:40.400 $50. It's easy. Just a hard drive swap for an SSD, not a big deal. And 00:04:38.960 --> 00:04:46.800 installing Windows. If you have trouble with that, you can check out this video up here, which is like an NCIX tech tips 00:04:43.840 --> 00:04:49.280 video from way back. Arguably, there isn't really an improvement for the 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:54.160 browsing experience. If you're going to spend most of your time in a web browser, uh there is an improvement 00:04:52.400 --> 00:04:58.720 getting to the browsing experience, but once you're there, it's pretty much the same for hard drive or SSD because 00:04:56.800 --> 00:05:04.720 that's RAM based. I don't really think upgrading the RAM is a huge value ad 00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:09.840 here as it's already rather fast. So, yeah, cheap, easy, not a big deal. Also, 00:05:07.919 --> 00:05:15.440 one thing to be careful of if you're looking to buy a laptop for this type of 00:05:12.320 --> 00:05:17.759 upgrade is that not all laptops are very 00:05:15.440 --> 00:05:22.080 user upgradeable. 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