From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 12/18/2025 6:26 AM, Adrian Caspersz wrote:   
   > On 17/12/2025 10:01, Jeff Gaines wrote:   
   >>   
   >> I have a Toshiba WT 310, i5 3439Y @ 1.5 GHz 4 GB RAM. 11.5" touch screen.   
   >>   
   >> It runs (actually walks slowly) Windows 8.1 and has always proved too slow   
   to do anything useful.   
   >   
   > Probably on a slow 4200 rpm disc. SSD upgrade?   
   >   
   >>   
   >> I have tried to set it up as a book reader but it's really too slow for   
   that.   
   >   
   > Make it a thin client and do the heavy lifting and storage somewhere else?   
   >   
   > Other than that, locally installed anything with XCFE.   
   >   
   > Getting hardware accelerated graphics out of the chipset is key.   
   >   
   > Years ago with older hardware it was about getting performance out of flash   
   in a browser, but thankfully we are past that.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > I have similar old libretto / NB100 sized laptops*.   
   >   
   > I quite fancy a project removing the motherboard, and replacing it with a   
   custom one running something Pi. Got no time.... and the fun in doing that is   
   greater than the fun in using it (unless it became a home automation remote   
   control), being that I'm    
   drowned in very affordable ultraportable Core i5/i7 these days with amazing   
   battery life and cheap spares.   
   >   
   >   
   > * I have junk. I have a problem.   
   >   
      
   The Jeff machine has NAND flash based storage.   
      
      Toshiba THNSNF128GMCS   
      
      Sequential Read   471 MBytes/Sec   
      Sequential Write  375 MBytes/Sec   
      
   It's an MSATA or something.   
      
   That should give a good boot time.   
      
      Paul   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)