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Old Feb 18, 2016 | 12:51 pm
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Originally Posted by DenverBrian
The advent of affordable SSDs has really changed my sense of how old a notebook can be before it needs to be replaced.

I swapped out my friend's 3-year-old Toshiba HDD for an SSD and his boot time went from 2:20 to :23. That one thing caused my friend to rave so much that he'll likely keep the machine for another 2-3 years.
Some of us jumped on the SSD bandwagon back back around 2008. Once you get rid of spinning rust, you never go back!
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