Buying New laptop vs Upgrading existing/old laptop
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There is dilemma when buying a new laptop especially when budget is tight.
Whether to buy new Laptop by investing handsome money
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Upgrade existing/old Laptop thus saving handsome money.
Many upgrade their old system and enjoy the performance of like a new pc
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Upgrade rather than buying new
Bhau aapka laptop ke configuration bhi batao
https://www.flipkart.com/acer-aspire-e-core-i3-...
This is the laptop I have
@alienteck
with some google I found that this laptop has two slots for RAM one is being used by 4GB RAM so I can put another 8GB RAM in second slot
for Memory-how do I know what are options I have when upgrading to ssd
@desisam
i have 2014 i7 4th gen lenovo laptop. it became very slow so found that HDD was corrupted, so installed new SSD of only 256 GB and now works like very new. 2nd laptop i have purchased in 2019 of i3 8th gen but RAM is of only 4 GB so it was very slow. Upgraded it with SSD, works like charm now.
SSD will solve problems of buying new.
I7 any generation would be enough for anything you want to do except like ray tracing.. If you really wanted power you would not have got a laptop anyway since they are much slower.. Also upgrading the RAM would give you a huge boost.. and they cost far less now. I think 8GB is like under 3k.. would speed up a lot of things like even SSD data would get cached into excess RAM.. I remember when caching came out and it speed out the computer so much, even 64mb of ram was a huge help.. 4 or 8GB of ram used for caching would make fly..
I think it all depends on for what purpose you plan to use laptop.
If you want to give to your kids, other family members for their basic use then I think upgrading to SSD is ok.
If you want to use it for your primary use like office then better to buy new one , especially when laptop is over 5 years old.
One more thing to consider is how is build quality. My Dell , Toshiba Laptops lasted well over 8 years and I could sell them for decent money. But my current Lenovo laptop has issues with rubber coating peeling off, hinge going bad, one screw going bad, gap etc.
I am not getting any good offers for it despite performance being good.
I think the bacteria in tropical climates eat the rubber.. Since I have used such things for decades in the US without such problems.. Even DVD’s get eatten.. I can see the yellow color turning white and transparent and they wont work properly now. Originals are supposed to last 100-200 years otherwise.. Once you see the rubber getting eatten that means they are also eatting many other things inside..
Now sure how to fix this.. maybe store in airtight containers when not in use?
Dell laptop screw threads are lost…
It make the hinge part broken…
Can someone tell cost of casing for dell laptop?
usually less than 1000, similar thing happened for one customer, my friend has a repair shop in ritchie street chennai, he did gas welding of hinge and repaired it within 1000
@Dastro Seems your Laptop supports only DDR3 RAM, make sure you use upgrade with same RAM speed with existing one if you are adding one more with existing for eg. if it is 1600 Mhz then add a new 8 GB with 1600 Mhz other wise if you have mismatch of 1600 Mhz & 900 Mhz for example both will run at 900 Mhz.
If you are going to get new one for both slots (selling the old one) get the one with max speed supported by your laptop. For ex. if your laptop supports 1800 Mhz (just making it up) get both new ram chipsets with 1800 Mhz.
With Respect to SSD, there are many variants with difference in performance, but for general usage you wont see any speed difference. If your laptop supports M2 PCIe better to go with M2 PCIe SSD instead of SATA SSD.
Thanks for the detailed info 
@Dastro get Crucial MX500 from amazon for around 3500.
https://www.amazon.in/Crucial-MX500-250GB-2-5-i...
Use a caddy like this to replace the dvd drive & install ssd in place of dvd drive.
https://www.amazon.in/Storite-Optical-Drive-Cad...
Also check this review in case of high processor usage:
https://www.amazon.in/gp/customer-reviews/R2NH1...
I have an E5-575G (i5-7th Gen, 4GB RAM, 2GB NVIDIA 940MX), got in 2017 Diwali sales for 30k. Upgraded the RAM from 4GB to 16GB (2X8GB sticks), added an M2 NVMe 256GB SSD and moved the Windows Installation to SSD, Upgraded the Screen to Full HD, Purchased an Intel AX210 Wifi 6e card to replace the inbuilt Wifi Card all by myself looking at some Youtube videos and ordering stuff from Amazon, Ebay.com. I was even able to sell off the older stuff which I removed from the laptop for decent price, bringing down the total cost of upgrades by a lot. I think with these upgrades I’ll be able to use this laptop for the next 5-6 years easily for my usage pattern (Web Browsing, OTT Entertainment, Light Gaming).
Next upgrades on my list are : Upgrade the HDD to a SATA SSD (Waiting for SSD prices to come further down, change battery (current battery has started to die and gives a backup of about 1 hour only)
Can you tell if- second RAM slot is fixed inversely in your model also(as upper part of RAM goes down while moving it from Slot 1 to Slot 2)
Upgrade your old one (replace hdd with ssd, etc) because next few years will see an explosion of superior processors (Thanks to M1. ) and displays (https://www.xda-developers.com/samsung-mass-pro...) . These will translate to cheaper devices with much longer (2-3x) battery lives
I have a dell 2 core 10 year old and an asus pentium from 2015 and a asus I3 from 2018.. The Dell is much faster than the asus pentium even with less memory.. Ofcourse for the I3 I replaced the HD with SSD and 12GB of ram which makes it fly.. Even though the frequency is only like 2.1Ghz,, So the CPU makes a huge difference.. as well as how much ram you can have and to speed it all up an SSD for laptop is a must.. This is because the 2.5 hard drives are very slow.. If you have an I3 or something, just upgrading ram and drive is better.. To see a difference you have to upgrade the cpu to a higher version like an I3 to an i5.., generation upgrade is pointless..