I have an old Dell Inspiron N5040 with a dead hard drive.
Is it worth fixing? I upgraded the ram to 8GB some time ago, but I've no real need for it, and I have to get a new work laptop in a few months anyways. I'd have to use the only laptop drive I have, which I'm using for my main rig right now (because I'm a cheap fuck and don't want to buy another)
>pic related, it's the laptop
>>54518450
>8GB DDR3
>Upgrade
Kek
Just get a new laptop, 16 gig minimum. 32 user here I couldn't fathom only having 8 in 2016
>>54518456
It's not much, but it was 4GB stock.
>>54518466
Like I said, I have to get a new laptop for work in a couple months, and besides that I have no real use for a laptop.
>>54518450
>newegg
>sort by price
It looks like you could fix it for ten dollars. You could have a home server with a built in ups, or a YouTube machine for your cats to watch birds on.
>>54518450
Boot from cd/sd card, run a live Linux distribution?
>>54518450
Are you in Castle Rock, CO?
>>54518954
No, other side of the country.
>>54518466
That makes no sense to me. What exactly are you doing on a laptop that requires more than 8 gigs of RAM? If you're running VM's or involved in graphic design, then I could get down with that, otherwise, tell me why I would need more than 8 gigs. Please. Edumacate me
>>54518450
Buy and install an Samsung SSD [850 pro] on that thing.
Install either Gentoo, Crux, Slackware or Arch GNU/Linux on it.
Then install a tiling window manager on it like dwm, i3, xmonad, or bspwm
Re-Compile packages that critically need the computer's true performance potential like the image libraries,
video decoders/encoders libraries,
Web browsers,
media players,
Xorg and the pixman library
All with-march=native -O3 -mfpmath=sse
And watch that piece of junk fly
>>54519967
This sounds like a good time, do this.
