My Dell Latitude E5530 laptop already has 16GB RAM. I'm thinking I can just replace my current 128GB SSD with his 1TB SSD: http://deals.dell.com/work/productdetail/pv2
Add the cost of the OS: https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Windows-Pro-System-Builder/dp/B00ZSHDJ4O/re...
Comes out way ahead of the new machine! :-)
Sure does but you can get it for less money: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1086227-REG/samsung_mz_75e1t0b_am_853...
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On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 5:39 PM, <mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com
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My Dell Latitude E5530 laptop already has 16GB RAM. I'm thinking I can just replace my current 128GB SSD with his 1TB SSD: http://deals.dell.com/work/productdetail/pv2
Add the cost of the OS: https://www.amazon.com/Microso ft-Windows-Pro-System-Builder/dp/B00ZSHDJ4O/ref=sr_1_2?ie= UTF8&qid=1512178503&sr=8-2&keywords=windows+10+professional+64+bit
Comes out way ahead of the new machine! :-)
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On 2017-12-02 01:00, Michael Oke, II wrote:
Sure does but you can get it for less money: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1086227-REG/samsung_mz_75e1t0b_am_853...
Thanks for that link, Michael!
Now...do I spend the extra $150 and get the 1TB or just realize that 512GB will probably be more than enough. (I've been operating in the 128GB space for years.)
This is the approach I took for my aging Samsung laptop. It already had an i7 with 16G of RAM, and it was seeming slow to me. I replaced a 500G HD with a 1T SSD and it breathed new life into it. The laptop I really wanted would have been $1,300 and I spent $300 on the new SSD HD. It's hard to justify that much money for a new machine when replacing the "slow parts" on an otherwise good machine is much more cost effective.
I was pretty nervous taking apart my laptop as it was a "thin" form factor and to replace the HD you basically go through the top and through the keyboard. YouTube videos helped me out and it went off without a hitch.
On 12/01/2017 08:39 PM, mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
Comes out way ahead of the new machine! :-)
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On 2017-12-02 08:46, Kevin Cully wrote:
This is the approach I took for my aging Samsung laptop. It already had an i7 with 16G of RAM, and it was seeming slow to me. I replaced a 500G HD with a 1T SSD and it breathed new life into it. The laptop I really wanted would have been $1,300 and I spent $300 on the new SSD HD. It's hard to justify that much money for a new machine when replacing the "slow parts" on an otherwise good machine is much more cost effective.
I was pretty nervous taking apart my laptop as it was a "thin" form factor and to replace the HD you basically go through the top and through the keyboard. YouTube videos helped me out and it went off without a hitch.
Hi Kevin!
That's exactly what I'm thinking. Mine isn't slow really, but I have been continuing to delete and move things to an external drive a lot (because I've been nearly out of space for years), and I hate that. Clients want me to do Quickbooks stuff and I don't have enough space to import their QB database and test. Frustrating.
On 2017-12-02 08:46, Kevin Cully wrote:
This is the approach I took for my aging Samsung laptop. It already had an i7 with 16G of RAM, and it was seeming slow to me. I replaced a 500G HD with a 1T SSD and it breathed new life into it. The laptop I really wanted would have been $1,300 and I spent $300 on the new SSD HD. It's hard to justify that much money for a new machine when replacing the "slow parts" on an otherwise good machine is much more cost effective.
I was pretty nervous taking apart my laptop as it was a "thin" form factor and to replace the HD you basically go through the top and through the keyboard. YouTube videos helped me out and it went off without a hitch.
How'd you get the operating system installed on the new SSD? USB drive of ISO image?
My laptop is so old that it won't boot off of an ISO on a USB key. At least it won't on the USB 2.0 port and my USB 3.0 ports are dead unfortunately. I installed the OS off of a CD.
On 12/02/2017 01:47 PM, mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
How'd you get the operating system installed on the new SSD? USB drive of ISO image?
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I've always been able to operate in 512GB of disc space on my development machine but I have a few file servers in my office to store and access large files from. A fast, external drive also handles data when I need to have it on the road with me. My current laptop (Dell XPS15) only has a 256GB drive in it at the moment because Dell wouldn't sell me the unit with anything larger in it. I have a 512GB replacement to put in it but other things have taken my focus of late. Maybe between Christmas and New Years I'll get a chance to swap the drives. There are NVMe drives so I may have to reinstall a new OS image on it but that is the cost of upgrading.
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On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Kevin Cully kcully@cullytechnologies.com wrote:
My laptop is so old that it won't boot off of an ISO on a USB key. At least it won't on the USB 2.0 port and my USB 3.0 ports are dead unfortunately. I installed the OS off of a CD.
On 12/02/2017 01:47 PM, mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
How'd you get the operating system installed on the new SSD? USB drive of ISO image?
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You get to choose which programs - now Apps 8-( - you want to keep - not all will migrate. iirc VFP was one of the ones that I had to install from scratch (I may be wrong about that but I think that's why I was asking about slipstreaming sp2).
On 04-Dec-2017 7:50 PM, mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
On 2017-12-03 00:33, AndyHC wrote:
I did this last year - iirc ms recommend laplink pcmover
Would that allow me to keep exactly what I've got...with the extra hard drive space added? That sounds too good to be true.
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OS can still be free but only until Dec 31st:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Accessibility/windows
Dave
-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com Sent: 02 December 2017 01:39 To: ProFox profox@leafe.com Subject: [NF] How about this alternative to purchasing a new machine?
My Dell Latitude E5530 laptop already has 16GB RAM. I'm thinking I can just replace my current 128GB SSD with his 1TB SSD: http://deals.dell.com/work/productdetail/pv2
Add the cost of the OS: https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Windows-Pro-System-Builder/dp/B00ZSHDJ4O/re...
Comes out way ahead of the new machine! :-)
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Sorry Mike, that link should have been:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/windows10upgrade
I used it on my home PC's and it installs bog standard windows nothing missing so start with Win 7 Pro and you end up with Win 10 Pro.
Dave
-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com Sent: 02 December 2017 01:39 To: ProFox profox@leafe.com Subject: [NF] How about this alternative to purchasing a new machine?
My Dell Latitude E5530 laptop already has 16GB RAM. I'm thinking I can just replace my current 128GB SSD with his 1TB SSD: http://deals.dell.com/work/productdetail/pv2
Add the cost of the OS: https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Windows-Pro-System-Builder/dp/B00ZSHDJ4O/re...
Comes out way ahead of the new machine! :-)
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