Please help to revitalise and old laptop (2009)

[lord_kelvin]

Goodmorning all,

SCOPE of the thread:
I am looking to "revitalise" an old laptop. I am kindly asking for help from the community.

I have 2 HDs with 2 different OS:
1) Ubuntu 16
2) Windows Seven
(I could choose between them from the boot)


The specs (from Ubuntu 16)
Pavilion dv9000 (GH766EA#ABZ) (GH766EA#ABZ)
Rev 1 64 bits
smbios-2.4 dmi-2.4 vsyscall32

Motherboard Quanta 65.2C

AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-56
slot: Socket S1
size: 800MHz
capacity: 1800MHz

CPU
64bits clock 200MHz

L1 Cache
64KiB

L2 Cache
1MiB

System board or motherboard
2GiB

DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
1GiB 64 bits

DIMM DDR2 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
1GiB 64 bits

VGA compatible controller
G73M [GeForce Go 7600]
NVIDIA Corporation
64 bits
33MHz

Audio device
MCP51 High Definition Audio
NVIDIA Corporation
32 bits
66MHz

ATA Disk
FUJITSU MHW2120B
NZ1DT752HNB1
111GiB (120GB)
Windows NTFS volume

ATA Disk
FUJITSU MHW2120B
NZ1DT752HNB1
111GiB (120GB)
Windows NTFS volume

(Then we have lot more stuff re bridge, controllers etc etc that I did not put in)


What I did until NOW
On Ubuntu 16, NOTHING
On Win Seven I just uninstalled lot of old and non necessary software I am will not use.



I would like to help few advices in order to make this computer a decent one, perhaps re hardware, software, tools, what to do and check, etc.

I really hope you can help me.

Much Thanks.

 

[hang-the-9]

You have two upgrades you can do, max out the RAM, replace the hard drives with faster ones, SSD is best, failing that, replace with standard drives but 7200rpm not the 5400rpm you have now. 120 GB SSD drives are pretty cheap now, especially if you get some used ones.