So I have a laptop in the kitchen for general family browsing and MS Office work (browsing for recipes, homework preparation etc)
It is a Lenovo T61, Core 2 Duo 2 GHZ with 2GB RAM. Running Windows 7 Prof 32 bit. I just re-loaded the OS as I had experimented with Linux Mint (which I liked but the rest of the family wanted MS Office instead of Open Office etc). Anyway with Windows, it seems a bit slow, i.e click on a browser icon and takes a few seconds for browser to launch.
Any ideas on how to improve performance? I looked at the Windows Experience Index and it is 3.5 due to the graphics sub-score being 3.5 The graphics chip is an Intel 965 express chipset.
I am looking at a few options:
1) Increasing RAM
2) Going back to Mint and loading Office through PlayonLinux
3) Upgrading the laptop i.e buying a new laptop
4) Building a small mini-ITX based system for the kitchen
Only want to go down 3) or 4) if there's no other way. Any suggestions appreciated.


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The other thing that occurred to me is that you could buy a cheap USB powered external caddy for the existing laptop hdd, & use it in conjunction with the SSD to supplement available storage.



