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Trying to rescue a 1GB RAM laptop (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I had an Aspire One D270 laptop with a 32-bit Intel Atom CPU and 1 gigabyte of RAM, so I installed Debian with Xfce on it, but even then it's running way too slow.

Is there anything I can do to make the laptop faster and more responsive given its limited memory?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, I completely forgot, that laptops real old, so go ahead and regrease the cpu.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I have two roughly 10 years old laptop that is completely usable, how do I go about regreasing the cpu (M14x r2 & A1502)?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Locate the service manuals or some kind of tear down. Confirm that the process will be within your capability. Order some thermal compound. Disassemble the laptop until you remove the heatsink from the cpu. Clean the old cpu and heatsink with isopropyl until it’s as clean as can possibly be. Apply new thermal compound. Reassemble laptop.

this might be the service manual for the alienware

A1502 could be a lot of laptops, use the emc number or serial to find out which one or just look for the MacBook Pro NN,n number in the about option under the Apple menu. It doesn’t matter which one you have, they’re all really easy to work on and well documented.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Check on youtube there is probably a video on how to open and do it your laptop model