No, the laptop was old and not in a great condition, I would have to buy new motherboard,CPU and who knows what, I preferred not to invest my money into that and get a new one.
My existing laptop is only 6 months old, so no. But I would consider this device when I'm looking to purchase a new laptop (and would have considered this device had I known about it 6 months ago).
An Acer Aspire V3 from ~2013 (my first Laptop). It also has an NVIDIA card (GTX 750M), but I can't remember having any issues with the drives, since you can just apt-get them. Even CUDA works, even though it's not really that useful on a machine like that. Upgraded the RAM to 32GB and installed an additional SSD. The Keyboard broke once and the original Battery was pretty much dead, both could be replaced for cheap. The new battery even is double the capacity and lifts the laptop up a bit which solves the airflow issue it originally had. For a 10 year old device it surely still runs great and still gets used for development when not at home.
Edit: Have been running Backtrack 5, Kali, Parrot, Pop and now Debian.
No. My wife has one. It doesn't even run YouTube anymore. Old laptops were a lot sturdier, though. Hers has outlasted about 3 of my high end ones. Good luck finding replacement parts, though.
Indeed. I just picked up a laptop from my shelf the other day that had been collecting dust for years (literally booted it last in July 2017), as a friend needed a replacement laptop.
The laptop was bought in 2011. It was a fairly cheap one then, and has a dual-core i3 with hyperthreading, and it came with an SSD. I added another some RAM I had laying around so now it has 8GB.
After getting a fresh copy of Win10 on it, it's surprisingly usable. Webpages loads just fine, YouTube is accelerated so is smooth. I could totally use that for my daily laptop had it not been for the rather lackluster 1366x768 screen.
Note to all: thanks for the response, sorry for the delay.
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