I recently purchased a Dell Latitude E5410 for $120 in almost brand spankin' new condition. I decided to install Elementary OS Freya and BOY is there a difference between it and plain old Ubuntu! I then decided to do a bit of investing and upgrade the entire thing! The stock configuration is as follows: Dual Core i5 2.67GHZ 580M 4GB DDR3 1600mhz 240GB 5400 HDD DVDRW Old 6-Cell OEM battery I bought the following: Cheapo Chinese-Branded USB Bluetooth adapter (REALLY have my doubts here, it stated in the listing that it was Linux compatible, but the package doesn't) Kingston 4GB SODMMs x 2 9-Cell aftermarket battery Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB Drive I've double and triple-checked everything and made sure it's all the right, compatible stuff... The battery was $18.92 The SSD was $35.99 The bluetooth adapter was $3.99 The RAM was $25.90 Total investment of $204.17? I haven't yet put it together, waiting for the family to go to sleep so I can film the process in peace...Vain, I am...hehe Did I get ripped off or did I hit it out of the park or somewhere in the middle? If anyone has any experience with this kind of setup, what kind of performance gains can I expect compared to the original config? I will be dual-booting this with Win7 Pro, for light games in a 60/60 (Or there abouts with formatting) configuration Thanks in advance to any replies!
