Hey, I have a Dell D630 from a few years back (1.8ghz core 2 duo, 120gb hdd, 3gb ram, x3100 integrated video).
I'm generally still pleased with its performance (and its 1440x900 14" screen!) but I'm moving in a few months and won't be taking my desktop system, so this laptop will become my only system for school/research/everything.
I'm wondering if it would be worthwhile sticking a SSD in here. I am hoping to avoid getting a new laptop, as I'm still generally quite happy with mine, and a new one would be at least $1k. However, it's clear that the machine is getting a little bit slow for work-related things.
Is it worth it? Have you done it? What say you?
(Alternatively I could just buy Windows 7 with my money instead. I have Win7 on my desktop but my laptop is still running XP/Ubuntu dual boot.)
I'm generally still pleased with its performance (and its 1440x900 14" screen!) but I'm moving in a few months and won't be taking my desktop system, so this laptop will become my only system for school/research/everything.
I'm wondering if it would be worthwhile sticking a SSD in here. I am hoping to avoid getting a new laptop, as I'm still generally quite happy with mine, and a new one would be at least $1k. However, it's clear that the machine is getting a little bit slow for work-related things.
Is it worth it? Have you done it? What say you?
(Alternatively I could just buy Windows 7 with my money instead. I have Win7 on my desktop but my laptop is still running XP/Ubuntu dual boot.)