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Geiseric
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Is it worth sticking a SSD in a 3 year old laptop?
It's a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo with a AMD Turion x2 Dual core running Vista 32bit
It's not as bad laptop but though I could give it a new lease of life.
If I did get one what is the best way to keep it running nice and quickly on Vista?
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JJW009
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How much memory does it have? If it's not maxed out, I'd do that first. But yes - it would probably feel like a new machine after a clean install onto an SSD. Certainly made my netbook feel a lot faster.
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l3v1ck
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Windows Vista doesn't support the TRIM command as far as I know. You may well find that the SSD performance degrades over time. * Double checks with google *
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adidan
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Crucial have their own garbage cleaner too.
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Geiseric
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The laptop has 3gb of DDR2 JJ
Is anybody on the forum using Vista with a SSD?
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Spreadie
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It will benefit hugely, performance wise.
As for trim, just put wiper, or an equivalent, on your drive and run it as a scheduled task.
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l3v1ck
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adidan
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I'm writing on my GFs PC here that has Vista (yay @ home today!  ). It's been fine for a long time after they patched all the faults, never had any issue with it since then TBH.
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Spreadie
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I was going to add that many people claim a fully patched up Vista is little different to Windows 7.
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adidan
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I'd have to agree TBH. I have W7 on my PCs upstairs, I notice no difference aside from the cosmetics ones.
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Geiseric
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I'm not buying a copy of 7 for it and as for An alternative OS.... no way after my fustrations of linux on a Eeeeeeeeepc I brought ones (what was all that about  ) I've got Vista64 Ultimate on my main gaming PC and it does me fine Edit - So Stick with Vista and a program like wiper and a good 120gb SSD.... any suggestions for around £120 - 130?
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adidan
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I'd suggest the Crucial M4 but that's about 140-150 at the mo, I managed to get mine from crucial when they had 10% off and I had a 5% discount code though so it was £136.67 and then something like £5+ more for quidco. I'm sure there will be a few pre christmas deals though if you can hang about for a little while.
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big_D
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Vista is fine, especially after SP1 was released. It is more performant on my iMac than OS X Lion!
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curiousclive
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Amazon.co.uk do a selection of SSD's
I recommend the crucial M4 as is what Have in all my comps. But the 128GB one is about £150 on Amazon but may be able to get cheaper elsewhere if google it.
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