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Opinion: How old is too old for a laptop?

By Jim Rossman
A utility in Windows called Task Manager will show you how your system is utilising RAM or the hard drive. — Photo by Ales Nesetril on Unsplash

I spent some time with a friend last week trying to see what we could do to make her laptop faster.

She has a six-year-old HP laptop that has really bogged down. It takes forever to start up, and then it is slow to respond to any input.

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