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Episode: 1731
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Title: HPR1731: Upgrading an old laptop
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1731/hpr1731.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-18 08:20:13
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This is HPR episode 1,731 entitled Upgrading and Old Laptop.
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It is hosted by Swift 110 and is about 12 minutes long.
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The summary is, I put brand new parts into an old Fujitsu lifeboat 4,215.
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Hello everybody, this is Anthony Venable, I'm pretty sure by now some of you have
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seen my blog, which is Anthony Venable 1100.wordpress.com, the link will be available later on.
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Just thought I'd go ahead and do a video version of how I upgraded my laptop and I did this
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way back.
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I'd say in December of 2010, that summer actually I had gotten this laptop from one of my
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friends who decided I didn't want it anymore and I was trying to figure out what did
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you do to it.
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Even on the desktop you try to click on different applications and it will be an issue.
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We wouldn't do anything but try to go to Windows Media Player.
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There was nothing that would happen when you click on the Windows Media Player.
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We ended up being really an epic fail for quite some time.
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I got so mad at the laptop that I just kind of put it on a shelf and just forgot about
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it for months.
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In December, I knew I was about to go on a trip to go see my older cousin in North Carolina.
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I was like all right, well let me go ahead and get this laptop together and see what I
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can get out of it before we can make happen and went over another cousin's house because
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he knows more about computers than I do.
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We ended up finding out that the hard drive was bad.
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The hard drive in this laptop, which by the way is a Fujitsu Lifebook T-Series 4215, it
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came out in about 2006-2007, something like that, so it's been around the world if you
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catch my drift.
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What I always liked about it early on was the fact that the screen, it has a screen that
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is able to convert it into a tablet pretty much so I can turn the screen around and show
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people in front of me, if I'm sitting at a desk or a table or something like I've done
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it, barbs and nobles so many times, borders.
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I was able to kind of show off with it and be like, haha, this is what's on my screen.
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I go, oh my god, really?
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And I'm like, yeah, yeah, this is what's up, this is what I have.
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So I ended up being pretty cool.
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So like I said, going back to about late December of 2010, the hard drive was bad, it was
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only 40 gigs, so I figured okay, no problem, 40 gig hard drive, all right, fine, the hard
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drive is bad.
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The operating system that I was on here initially was Windows XP tablet edition, like 2003,
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yeah, it was going back pretty far, 2003, 2005, something like that, it was just annoying.
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Initially, I was going to just put Windows XP, but then I decided not to, I was like, well,
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how would it go if I actually put Windows 7 on here?
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And so I decided to go ahead and put Windows 7 on the laptop.
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Which worked out pretty well, getting off, getting me going.
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Something else I knew also was I was going to need more RAM.
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There was only a 512 megabytes of RAM installed on this machine initially.
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So I decided to kind of up the ante and put it up to, yeah, I put it up to about 3, then
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one of my RAMs, Dix went bad.
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So it's dead about, it's about 2.5 gigs of RAM in here now.
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But I ran to my local micro-center in Rockville, Maryland.
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And I decided I was going to go ahead and upgrade a hard drive.
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I saw that they had 500 gigabyte hard drives available for about 60 bucks, which was awesome.
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So I decided to go ahead and do that.
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And then when it came to doing a RAM, I ended up just getting another 2 gigabyte stick.
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And I had a 1 gigabyte stick, but it stopped working like I mentioned a little earlier.
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So I just put the original 512 in there.
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So that's why I'm at 2.5 gigabytes of RAM right now.
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Which runs Windows 7 really well.
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I can't recommend using anything under 1 gig for Windows 7.
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It's not nice.
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In school, we did it a little less, and I just don't recommend it.
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It's ugly, tedious, and all that.
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So I just don't, I really can't recommend you doing that for a lot of reasons.
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Yeah, the RAM.
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So everything got going pretty well.
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As I mentioned, this laptop is able to be converted into a tablet.
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I've toyed around with it using the stylus.
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In fact, the stylus works pretty well with this particular laptop, but that one acted up.
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So anyway, when it ended up happening, was I decided I wanted another laptop to kind of
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back up in case that one ended up having an issue or something happened to it or what
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happened.
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So I go, I go on to Amazon.com, I looked at eBay as well.
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In fact, was it eBay?
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Yes, it was eBay.
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It was eBay.
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And I decided to go ahead and bid on the laptops that I wanted, the exact model, and I bid
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on it, kept messing, listening, over and over and over.
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Other people would kind of bid on it, and then I would lose it, and then I'd get upset
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and be like, come on, seriously?
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Seriously?
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I can't get this laptop?
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All right, fine.
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So one day I decided, well, how about I go ahead and bid on, too?
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So I bid on, too.
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To my surprise, I ended up getting both of them.
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I was like, oh, there are $88 a piece, plus tax altogether came onto about $224, $224.
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It was my tax money, so it was cool.
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I got two, three laptops now that I can use for various purposes, whatever, and just
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go from there, and that's what I did.
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What I ended up doing, not so long after I installed Windows 7 on this particular device,
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was that I put a bunch of 10.010.04, Maverick Miracat, it worked out well, but I decided
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I wanted to go upgraded to 10.10, which was, no, it couldn't have been Maverick Miracat.
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See, Ubuntu has code names for different releases at the air, so anytime you start talking
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about, for instance, 10.10, being Maverick Miracat, 11.04, being Nadi Narwhal, 11.10, goodness
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gracious.
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I forgot what it was.
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I do know the 12.04 is precise pangolin, good for me, so that's pretty cool.
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What else I want to say?
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I'm sorry, but I'm putting Ubuntu 10.10, which is in fact Maverick Miracat, I'm right,
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on here.
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And it works out pretty good.
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I like the wildly Windows, and one of the things that ended up happening was it went,
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they ended up changing something about the desktop interface, previously it was called
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No, No 2, and they decided to go to No 3 with the Nadi interface, and I wasn't exactly
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too cool with that, so far I've hung out with Ubuntu 10.10, I'm sticking with it.
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I'm going to see what happens when precise pangolin comes out 12.4 release, and I'll probably
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install it on my computer as well, and we'll see how it goes more or less.
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All right, well, I told you what I did to my laptop, talk to you later, bye.
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Thank you very much for your time, and I'll see you in the next video, bye, bye, bye,
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bye, bye.
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