My desktop is a 2012 lenovo office machine. Fresh SSD, wifi card, and an… OK graphics card have had the thing purring for me since 2018.
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MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Go Linux without a doubt. The hardware is still usable.
singletona@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Flagstaff@programming.dev 2 months ago
What if the SSD and everything else are 9 years old?..
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 months ago
If it’s that valuable, you should have backups anyway.
potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 2 months ago
And chances are it’s all cloud work that they’re doing on the computers.
barsoap@lemm.ee 2 months ago
With the age of those computers you might even be looking at a HDD. Those should definitely be replaced, SSDs, it depends.
In any case a new 128G SDD is on the order of 15 bucks, well worth the investment even for an age-old system (unless you have a bit more extra cash because the GB/buck optimum is in the 0.5-2T range).
Flagstaff@programming.dev 2 months ago
Well, an additional problem with this Lenovo ThinkPad is that its “A” key is coming loose if not pressed on the rightmost side. I’ve also dropped it 3x from over a foot’s distance (knocked off a table, etc.), which damaged its Bluetooth receiver. So I’m wondering if it’s even still worth maintaining…
It’s definitely got 2×256 GB SSDs in it, though they’re also all from 2016-17, hence my predicament of sorts…
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My 10yo netbook runs the latest Debian Linux. If it was running on its original OS (XP) it would not only crawl but be dangerously vulnerable.
franticdisembowel@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Wow, pretty unbelievable a netbook was still being sold with XP in 2015 lol. How’d you come about getting that?