- Aug 21, 2018
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sepik's Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Li 2727 (got this one for free)
Dual Core 1.46ghz, 2GB ram, 160GB HDD(5400 rpm), Intel GM965 GPU, 1280x800 Brightview+
First phase:
- Installed Windows XP, only because of flashing the BIOS to newest version
- Installed Windows 10 LTSC
Second phase:
- Installed all the windows updates
- Installed Chrome, Winrar, Irfanview, VLC
- Installed Driver Booster, installed drivers, then uninstalled
- Installed Advance SystemCare, applied all the tweaks etc, then uninstalled
- Installed O&O Shuttup 10, applied recommended tweaks
- Manually tweaked some services
- Installed Webroot SecureAnywhere (the "best" setting applied)
- Installed Wise Disk Cleaner and cleaned the trash
- Installed Smart Defrag and optimize drive
- Installed PrimoCache (Level-1 cache 192mb, Block Size 32kb, Prefech last cache, start at windows boot. Enabled Lock Cache Content when cache hit rate was like 19 %.)
Boot times:
Fast boot enabled -> shut down -> power up -> boot to windows = 26 sec
Restarting -> boot to windows = 42 sec
Third phase:
- Installed KDE Neon Linux next to Windows 10 (dual boot)
- After end of installation of KDE Neon, for some reason, it could not install GRUB Loader (sigh)
Fourth phase:
- Boot to windows
- Installed Grub4Win boot manager
- In Grub4Win, add KDE Neon partition to the boot manager menu
- Apply and reboot, now you have Grub4Win boot manager installed and both windows 10 and KDE Neon can be started via boot menu
This laptop is about 13 years old. With these specs, i'm really surprised how fast this ancient laptop is. Windows 10 LTSC works just fine, 720p youtube videos works without frame drops. KDE Neon works really good too(and disabling some eyecandy makes it even faster).
Going to sell this to some of my friends for...25 $ or so.
Kind regards,
-sepik
Dual Core 1.46ghz, 2GB ram, 160GB HDD(5400 rpm), Intel GM965 GPU, 1280x800 Brightview+
First phase:
- Installed Windows XP, only because of flashing the BIOS to newest version
- Installed Windows 10 LTSC
Second phase:
- Installed all the windows updates
- Installed Chrome, Winrar, Irfanview, VLC
- Installed Driver Booster, installed drivers, then uninstalled
- Installed Advance SystemCare, applied all the tweaks etc, then uninstalled
- Installed O&O Shuttup 10, applied recommended tweaks
- Manually tweaked some services
- Installed Webroot SecureAnywhere (the "best" setting applied)
- Installed Wise Disk Cleaner and cleaned the trash
- Installed Smart Defrag and optimize drive
- Installed PrimoCache (Level-1 cache 192mb, Block Size 32kb, Prefech last cache, start at windows boot. Enabled Lock Cache Content when cache hit rate was like 19 %.)
Boot times:
Fast boot enabled -> shut down -> power up -> boot to windows = 26 sec
Restarting -> boot to windows = 42 sec
Third phase:
- Installed KDE Neon Linux next to Windows 10 (dual boot)
- After end of installation of KDE Neon, for some reason, it could not install GRUB Loader (sigh)
Fourth phase:
- Boot to windows
- Installed Grub4Win boot manager
- In Grub4Win, add KDE Neon partition to the boot manager menu
- Apply and reboot, now you have Grub4Win boot manager installed and both windows 10 and KDE Neon can be started via boot menu
This laptop is about 13 years old. With these specs, i'm really surprised how fast this ancient laptop is. Windows 10 LTSC works just fine, 720p youtube videos works without frame drops. KDE Neon works really good too(and disabling some eyecandy makes it even faster).
Going to sell this to some of my friends for...25 $ or so.
Kind regards,
-sepik