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‎04-11-2020 09:06 PM

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Product: Hp Pavilion dv9310ca
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista

I was just handed this machine from a relative. I had this laptop years ago and thought it was amazing. Is there anything I can upgrade on this thing to make it even close to today's performance? Even if I want to just watch a movie on it or do some surfing. What's the best I can do for this? Cheers!

 

Jetlock

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‎04-11-2020 09:23 PM

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@JetLock 

With a laptop this old, there is very little you can do to improve it.

 

It came running Vista, and while you could have upgraded that to Win7, since that is no longer supported by Microsoft, that would not be a good thing to do.  There won't be any driver for any newer OS, so those upgrades would not go well.

 

The PC came with 1GB of memory standard, which can (if you can find the really old RAM it uses) upgrade to 2GB, but that's not enough to run any modern OS.

 

Plus, it came with a 120GB drive, and since that is the size limit for older OS versions, the BIOS in this unit will probably not handle anything larger.

 

You could spend the money on an SSD, but since this is a SATA-1 PC, that's not going to buy you much speed improvement.

 

Sorry, but it's basically a dinosaur.



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