Revive your old laptop 

It is still interesting for the basic user like my parents ^^, just not that much for an electronic enthusiast ^^

LOL! I was thinking they we're going to upgrade the cpu/ram/networkcard, then clean or replace the CPU fan and reapply thermal paste but nope. just a ssd.

We should get luke to do a new one where he at least remove the dust, replace the thermal paste and put a brand new ssd, not the one that his parents are using XD

Matt Koesterman-Snowden yep we all agree

I'm not one for griping on videos but I do agree. This video is a waste of time.

Jacob Andrews no saw in video? what?

Big Thick yes. Luke is holding a saw in the thumbnail that doesn't appear anywhere in the video

Jacob Andrews 1:00

Jacob Andrews I'm actually kind of with you. No reason for this video to exist.

yeah, I love LTT, but this is dissapointing. AD* (Take a look at my playlist for more interesting videos)

😏😅 me too

Same!

😭

polymerizedrecords and maybe even try out the newish Raspbian based PIXEL OS released by the folks at Raspberry Pi, or the CloudReady Chromium OS, both of which can be used to get the most out of old computers. THAT would be an interesting video.

Seth Waltemyer that would take it to the next level. Yeah, I don't know why or how we got something like this. Maybe no time or something happened in the supply chain of a particular video and they had to make mends with this?

polymerizedrecords agreed. throw Kodi on it and stick it behind your TV, set it up as a debian based LAMP to learn about network administration and Linux on, use it as a box to learn programming Python/C/Java, or all of the above at the same time.

It would have been cool to see them revamp the entire laptop. Try to unsolder the CPU from the motherboard or something.

Since Linus loves multi part videos, there's one - a complete teardown and reassembly while upgrading certain parts. "LAPTOP REVIVAL: Pheonix Down Edition"

that's why i love RU-vid

Munjee Syed grow up

Like any sorta criticism, whether it is perceived as constructive or not. =)

That's the freedom of the comment section, a free exchange of ideas and opinions.

You make little use of it. ^^

Cleaning it out and adding new thermal paste does MIRACLES.

polymerizedrecords true true, I added new thermal paste when I got my current laptop, and I clean it regularly. good maintenance in general helps

or you could buy a new laptop with this much money

***** I didn't really figure everyone would do everything on that list. But yeah sometimes the only thing that can be done is get a new computer.

how about trying to get an external graphics card?

Calyx too bad bitch

Calyx Yeah. I enjoying the text in the thumbnails.

It looks too fake.

They said that it made more people watched their video, so I guess they wouldn't change the thumbnail style anytime soon. If you don't like it install adblock so you wouldn't give 3 cents or whatever watching an ad worth to them

Adrian Abedon They got rid of the text though?

J Hughes I agree maby it is just filler till ces

I 100% agree.. I think the channel (and many others) are going downhill VERY fast.

Yep, this one hurt a bit. :(

Yikes, I hope it doesn't end up like LifeHacker, which used to be full of just-about-accessible wizardry for energetic young geeks but has gradually evolved into a mumsy lifestyle&home magazine full of laundry tips and articles on how to silence your 'racist' uncle's political discourse.

J Hughes i think that whine is the laptop fans.

ChrisD4335 bring in new viewers

You'd be surprised on the amount of people who don't even know what an SSD or HD is.

yeah, this definitely applies to more non-tech-savvy people

yeah i see little purpose to this video other than new viewers

the first ppl that watch linustechtip vids ofc. but eventually someone that doesn't know it will watch

swaps hard disk drive to a solid state drive...

my exact feeling haha, its a waste of money for a temporary use

Well as you can see HDD is temporary as well as it degrades. Lifetime comparsion of SSD and HDD is pretty much the same this days.

to be fair an ssd is one of the single biggest thing you can do to speed up any pc. I can't stand using pc's where windows is installed on a mechanical drive.

Not really. When you get a new pc you can always just move the drive over

also just watches it to see that lmao

Le John yep

Have not finished the video, but why

Brendan Branson Just an hdd to ssd swap...

and doesn't even show an OS migration like most people need if they would have done this

it was pretty useless :(

yes

LTT TEXT FTW

Yeah, fuck putting effort into thumbnails

"This guy has discovered an amazing trick to revive his old laptop. See the shocking truth. IT-Engineers hate him." Easy way to stay clickbaity and have text.

Yes but "This guy has discovered an amazing trick to revive his old laptop. See the shocking truth. IT-Engineers hate him." brobobly wouldnt fit in the thumbnail.

yea the TheLegend27!

Who is TheLegend27?

Some say TheLegend27 is the first Game Of War player ever.

TheTunnelBear27?

MexGaming i heard The Legend27 can hurl a Boulder farther than a catapult

drworm1555 clickbait?

They maybe tried to compare the upgrade to the fountain of youth?

If the thumbnail had an SSD, I wouldn't have clicked the video.

well after watching the video, were you happy you watched it?

Clickbait. They have had to resort to that after Vessel quit. Also they have sprinkled some pretty dry forced jokes into videos after that.

I was thinking the same thing.

One thing they didn't blur out is their WiFi password...

Henry Jiang when

I noticed they didn't blur the password, guess Linus will be changing it now :P

Beaver13 LUL

Duck tape an external bay to it and some battery UPS to cart around in a shopping cart. :D

lol xd :D

Tbh, a 1st gen i5 dually is still plenty capable for a Windows machine anyway. Similar vintage laptop myself with an SSD, runs many rings around my work computers with quad i5s (Haswell) and HDDs. Though the latter part is just someone in the company's IT who does not know how to build a somewhat balanced system.

Shazy Donut yes cse teaching your parents how to use linux will be extremely fun

Shazy Donut it works actualy i have a 10+ years old laptop and i use it for browsing

***** I was more thinking of lower specced/older systems, since the title of the video is "revive your OLD laptop"!

I would say if you only need the system for basic task like email, web browsing, RU-vid, etc.. to put Neverware's CloudReady version of ChromiumOS onto the machine, as it's even lighter weight, and runs on as little as 2GB of system ram. Don't get me wrong I love normal lightweight Linux distros like Mint XFCE, or Lubuntu, but sometimes keeping things simple on older hardware is a nice thing.

💀💀💀💀

bruh

RU-vid Li Lol same at mine

RU-vid Li one time we decided to time how long the computers at my old high school took to boot up... Fastest one took 18 minutes and 20(ish) seconds and the slowest one took 21 minutes and around 10 seconds... Not even a joke ._.

MrPsyghoost they would have 5200rpm hdd with bad/currupted sectors 256mb to 2gigs of ram and never diskcleaned or defragmented i gurantee u!

It's also the network login time.

You think that's anything? For 3 months our school (2000 students) IT was shot to bits. If you want to do any work you need to get there an hour before the lesson starts and log in, then you might get into the PC 10 minutes into the lesson. I wish this was a joke.

LOL! I was thinking they we're going to upgrade the cpu/ram/networkcard, then clean or replace the CPU fan and reapply thermal paste but nope. just a ssd.

I would have at least like to see them test a light weight Linux distro on the machine like Mint XFCE or Neverware's CloudRady OS version of Google's ChromeOS. as they are fantastic on older machines like this when all it's going to be use for are basic everyday task.

I was actually expecting something more along the lines of repurposing the laptop, not just popping in a new SSD and calling it a day.

With an SSD install and a new install of Windows, it does wonders for laptops around that generation. If the RAM is less than 4GB, then upgrading that is going to help. 4, 6, or 8GB is good for general use these days, but 2GB or less and you're going to be maxing out the RAM a lot. The CPU is generally not modular, and if it is, then it would be difficult to find an upgrade that would work in the socket anyway. Reapplying thermal paste and cleaning out the dust would help if it's overheating, but it's not going to make it run quicker.

"revive your old laptop by reinstalling windows 7" while we're at it, let's try "switching it off and on again" SMH

I love how they fresh installed and didn't update to exaggerate it's slow speed.

Paul Garcia That's actually a pretty good way to revive an old laptop.

He means revive it to be faster

Its the only way most of the times...

But some people are not as tech like. Hence in the beginning he said his parents were using it.

Exactly - the video was title "Revive your old laptop". I don't believe they even suggested modifications/a change of OS, which is perhaps the easiest thing a non-techy to do.

Was thinking the samething

Yeah this could have been a minute long video "here is a old laptop that i want to upgrade to ssd, look here i pop it in" video done. cue ad roll

Harmdhast Lol, funniest joke I've heard today!

Ian oliver Lol :D

Just assuming off a build like that, its your hard drive thats the problem

Should run Crysis 90 FPS on ultra settings at 4K.

hellterminator I heard that in DirectX 12 you can run that turnip and potato in Explicit Multi Adapter and get some irresponsible performance.

+ because Linux

ネーナ・トリニティ Centrino Thinkpad w/ arch ftw

My sister who is not tech savvy did pretty well for years with old laptops running Lubuntu.

linux is gey

Andrew Lee Please explain yourself! What makes you think, Linux is 'gay'?

LOL! I was thinking they we're going to upgrade the cpu/ram/networkcard, but nope. just a ssd.

The click bait thumbnail makes Luke looks like a fool. All dressed up in white protective gear with tools just to replace a SSD.

Jan Dec Stränge Cause it wasnt made by luke

what thing?!

ThunderBolt /Gameplays, Random \ Variedad a tope. really? look down man

That thing.

Thanks! Now I can't unsee it :D

Nah you gay

my solution: Just skip these videos if you know it's not something you will need. I mean were you really looking to make your old laptop work like new again? It would seem you already have the skills to do that on your own so why even bother watching this?

I honestly thought this was going to be something like Linus's "Oops I left it out in the rain" revival videos that he did with the Dell XPS laptops, thanks to the thumbnail. Those videos were entertaining so I thought, you know, might as well watch it and see which laptop they nearly killed this time.

Click bait is the only way on youtube , and the clickbait here is not even extreme . The content of the video was bad though

tell me about it. dislike.

Troy Richardson yes it was

This is RU-vid. That's what you come here to do

is it the old throw a ssd and maybe more ram at it like it magically fixes everything

xartpant Yeh. I hate doing win7 installs now.

They are laptops we use at work and have to keep them win7.

Just google "windows 7 won't update" and you should find instructions easily now. It involves a Convenience Rollup and still is a bit shakey.

WSUS Offline. Works every time.

Check out wu.krelay.de/en (safe) basically the method is to download a Rollup Pack and Servicing Stack. In Services stop windows update, install the offline servicing pack, then once its done, stop Windows update service against, install the offline Rollup pack. Restart computer. CHeck for windows updates, should take less than 15 minutes vs hours now.

Like you couldn't think for 10 seconds and come to the same conclusion yourself, right? ;)

But they've already did this video, SSD vs HDD, it was even more in-depth.

yeah that's true, maybe just show it for laptops or something as the dependent variable instead of desktops. Idk there could be a difference.

PhilsComputerLab agreed

That's what I was thinking the whole time watching the video, they skipped a huge step which is very misleading! And by the way, love your videos!

Meh... a cloned drive can run really slow... it really is best to start fresh. I can sympathize with not wanting to start from fresh though.

Zack Tyler I usually always start fresh, but when I'm upgrading/repairing someone elses computer I always clone. I don't wanna get blamed for losing anything (even though it's all there).. It's happened before.

If you don't want to get blamed for people losing anything, why not rather learn them more about decent storage/backup management? It's a worthwhile lesson and especially an easy subject to touch upon in these cases, people generally assume that at the point an actual drive crash might occur some of those files may be recoverable, while the worst should be assumed (as-in: nothing can be recovered). Dodging this important subject is anything-but a solution. Data-migration in any case is something where *many* things can go wrong, and the argumentation is very, very weak when you encounter a user with a drive that's been overburdened, you run the risk of cloning corrupted data or the user may assume data to be existing, while the file actually had been long gone missing. Not checking the destination for a succesfull copy is a mistake, but assuming the original doesn't contain any faults is a much larger one at that :) I'd never been too aware of such details, untill one day, nearly half a year after cloning an HDD to an SSD this user encountered corrupted jpegs. Ofcourse as always happens in such events, they would be important and/or family photos. It's only luck that this user had left their disk behind with me at that time and I never bothered to do anything with it at all up to this point. Without this disk this user still would have blamed me for corrupting his photo's. Bit-rot is very real and incredibly hard to notice. But the-more-so to prove that it hasn't happened by your means. I personally no longer accept any migrations from HDD to SSD where the end-user can not accept any form of unrecoverable data loss or expects those cases to be my responsibility. Otherwise, it's just too hairy for me.

+Zack Tyler I've never seen performance degradation after cloning a drive. I mean, how is that even supposed to happen? It doesn't make any sense.

I find cloning's pretty good enough for chumps like me. I have a 5yo HP laptop, where Windows took almost 5 minutes to completely load - now it's 22 seconds. Everything else is snappy, and I seriously wasn't going to waste time looking for drivers etc. Granted though, the hard drive that was being cloned was only about a year old itself and everything was clean, and all of my other files are backed up on multiple drives anyway. But, that's only what most reasonably logical people do - a lot of people just have *one* drive for everything, and if they lose stuff, they need to learn to not expect miracles.

Memestar and that avatar making a comment about Clickbait? Naice :P

+Miller Kemestar

how was it misleading? he did what he said he was going to do.

Nolan Heistad the thumbnail is misleading

Nolan Heistad arguably, thats like the most common thing anyone could of suggested to do, far from really "reviving"

Haha I found 80 gig of clutter on my SSD just yesterday. I suppose running fast makes them fill up quickly too :P

Too true

Yeah, I never got how people could replace their 500 GB or 1 TB HDD for an SSD in their laptop. Now there's plenty large SSDs available but how did people do it when even 256 GB SSDs were expensive? I have a 500 GB HDD and that thing fills up pretty quickly, I can't imagine trying to deal with less than that.

Hendlton I managed to get away by stuffing a fat HDD in with my SSD - but as the SSD is considered the 'C:/' drive, I'm forced to constantly shift large quantities of junk off it and onto the data drive (case in point, Spotify, which gives no installation options and uses 10 gig of space - even with no downloaded music)

Yaseen Akbar sadly no

fares alshabanat damn u broke

79stanger Did upgrading ram do much? I'm contemplating if I should up the ram or hard drive

Hyun Kang I haven't really noticed a difference with more RAM yet. Definitely go for the SSD.

You will only notice RAM upgrades in the average mass market user computer if you are a person who keeps >12 internet browser tabs open.

You will also only notice an immediate difference in RAM in any situation if you upgrade the frequency of your RAM versus just sheer capacity.

"buy" pff

pff.... meh.

SimmonSays Yeah boys! Let's just steal it! I love commiting crimes!

Linux?

Why didnt he show how to move your old drive to the new one atleast

porn

Where?

U torrent or anime probably

Right click the folder and then click hidden folder than to access it go to windows explorer and the file should be there if not enable seeing hidden files in the options or if not just type in the address of the file like C:\Users\Sample\hiddenfile :P Edit: I didn't even notice they blurred the file the first time til I watched it a second time LUL

Luke's Noods

This guy is speaking the truth. READ THIS LTT CREW

Paradox Some AMD apu 1.6ghz dual core 256 vram and 2 gb (1.8 usable) ram

RIP my brother you're worse off than I am lol at least I was able to upgrade to 8gb ram and an 840evo SSD.. even so it struggles playing 720p60fps YT videos :'(

Paradox mine actually plays 720p60fps only using the firefox, ill be upgrading ram if not getting new pc soon hopefully.

Oh neat! I use an extension that disables 60fps so that I can play videos in 1080p xD I am looking into buying a new laptop, too. Hope you get your soon!

Paradox Yeah, you too.

But I tend to do this all the time with older laptops, I have an old netbook which serves as a twitch chat bot machine and a wifi adapter since my 360 doesnt have the official wifi adapter so internet connection shared from the wireless card of that machine, or there is another laptop I have I use like a media center PC that only has a Core 2 Duo and DDR2 but plays video content fine

All.

they are slower than SSDs of course. But there not PAINFULLY slow.

Probably old ones that run no more than 5400 rpm and also are over used.

YoMamasTacos all are

Only old ones are painfully slow. I have a WD Black, and it's currently in my laptop. The laptop only supports SATA 2, and the hard drive actually is being bottlenecked by the SATA 2 specification of the laptop.

Alex Johnson a few years ago now!

"a few years ago"??? They "died" on April 1, 2016.

Toshiba bought them out. The OCZ name lives on.

But you can still buy them from amazon and there website is still up? Source please.

yea idk if anything really changed much OZC to toshiba the m.2 drives i bought recently are really kick ass still need to try the samsung with the higher speeds but the OZC m.2 at pcie 4x are faster than any normal consumer would ever need at this time

same, bro ._.

More RAM doesn't do anything unless you edit videos.

No point in adding more ram if your CPU cannot take advantage of it. He said it has ddr3 Ram, and DDR3 Ram is not that bad even compared to modern Ram. Theres no point in adding additional ram either unless the laptop will be running programs that demand it (like gaming, rendering, editing, multi web browser). But if your just going to use the laptop to casually browse the internet and use Microsoft word, then theres no reason to change the ram. He could have dusted out the fan, dusted underneath the keyboard and maybe wiped the HD and reinstall it clean on the SSD, but thats about it.

this videos so pointless

More memory helps if your usage even gets close to the max memory because the OS caches/swaps things from memory to disk. Part of the reason old laptops are so slow is a combination of not much memory (so the OS swaps a lot) and slow drives (swapping takes forever)

more memory != faster memory If 4GB of memory isn't enough, it doesn't matter if it's ddr2, ddr3, or ddr4, it will benefit greatly by being improved to 8GB ....

Blondie TheGood Unless if it is Arrandale family.

Sachindra Bhattacharya ty saved a few minutes of my life I was hoping for a lightweight os.

Why would you do that wtf?

dont all the new mac's have ssd's anyway?

No need, it's already perfect.

No. But your mac'll get slower anyways, the 2016 MacBook Pro has an incredibly fast SSD. Very few commercially available drives can reach those speeds, if any.

Nope. they have soldered SSDs

Mine takes 5 sec to boot. Lol would be a big deal to me.

5 seconds to boot? nah

Good At Being Noob Yes, Windows 10 boot times are incredibly short especially on an SSD and with No GUI Boot enabled.

Robert Tucker - (shadykillar123) I was implying that 1:32 isn't the end of the world

justin rivera Take the hard drive and ram out of it (if possible) and toss the rest of it. The hard drive can be put in any computer and you could either re use the ram or sell it for some money.

if it still works you could plug it into a TV, hide it somewhere and use those wireless keyboard/mouse and you have a simple media player or even play old games and emulators

UdirtyCamel Two different ram sticks even possible? like corsair and g skill?

it has no hard drive because i put it in a desk top 750GB is a lot of storage when you only have a 60GB SSD and i heard you cant just plug a regular hdd 3.5mm i think into it :(

justin rivera Connect a monitor

Flamearky Because he's chubby

Flamearky hes just thicc

MiranFTW9871 lol

Kyle Netherwood yep

Well, you don't have to buy a 1TB SSD to speed up your PC. Just buy a 128 GB model and put your windows installstion on it.

StarTrek123456 My laptop, like many, has only one drive bay.

Kyle Netherwood not rly lol there like 80 dollars for 128 gig

80?! That's really expensive for 128GB. I just got a 512GB SSD for $120. Also, it's a Samsung SSD, which means it's good.