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>randomly stumble upon pic related on sale for €100
>impulse buy it
>it's probably gonna be shit but hey, it's 100€ and I can just return it anyways
>bring it home, turn it on
>takes half an hour just to get through the windows 10 setup with all the bloatware installed
>100% cpu because of mcafee and onedrive running making it unusable
>wipe it, install ubuntu
>boots up relatively fast
>runs smoothly
>it's like a completely different machine
I'm actually kinda impressed, the touchpad is nice, keyboard is decent + it's light and completely silent, pretty comfy machine
Why do manufacturers fill their laptops with all that crap? Most people who buy it must disregard it as completely unusable trash, and honestly that's how it felt the first bootup
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>>57905081
>Most people who buy it must disregard it as completely unusable trash
lel
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>>57905081
So they can earn more money out it.
Why make $10 profit when you can make $50 profit adding shit over it?
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>>57905081
Similar case.
>saw Samsung NP270E4E for dir cheap
>well, why not.
>has windows 8, slow as fuck
>touchpad unresponsive and utter trash
>Windows Update hogs CPU for hours (Intel 1007u)
>got fed up and Installed Ubuntu
>Everything just werks.
>touchpad is responsive and quite comfy
>fan barely kicks in because it's cold even during heavy use.
>decide to fall for the SSD meme, also bought a 4GB ram stick because it was on offer (6Gb total)
>laptop is fas AF, everything runs fast and smooth.
I even have a Windows 8.1 VM and it's pretty good.
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Its been 12 years and i still cant figure out how to remove Groove folder synchronization
What does it even do? It doesnt show up as files anywhere, even a fresh install of xp still gave me it.
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>>57905772
it's embedded into the soul of the motherboard
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>>57905081
I have this shitty laptop that was my mother originally purchased but never used because of how slow it was. Pretty happy with how it runs now that i installed xubuntu on it. Was thinking of chucking an ssd in it even but i doubt it would actually increase performance
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>>57905081
I've done this to so many computers. The feeling of getting everything to work is beyond this world.
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>>57905081
you should have searched craigslist for a used thinkpad, you can grab em up for cheap, clean em up and they look as good as new, practically a bullet-proof laptop, i would suggest a panasonic toughbook but they are rare and hard to find
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i once got an nokia booklet 3g for free from a friend who also got it for free, it has 1gb ram and a shitty atom cpu iirc and a slow ass 100gb hard drive. pic related. this one is different. it's just trash. you can't save this one. it's too slow for 240p youtube playback.
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>>57906823
I wanted something thin and light, old thinkpads are quite the opposite, and in europe the prices on these aren't that great either
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>>57907299
>old thinkpads are quite the opposite
S-suffix models and X series would beg to differ.
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