Here are the specs to my laptop:
http://tinyurl.com/m5s4ut4
I currently have Windows 8.1 64 bit on my laptop. Still the same stock 4 gb of RAM. Windows 8.1 runs okay. Not the performance I wanted. I’m looking for a fast system. I plan on running Wine too for the programs that are not compatible with Suse Linux. I just want to know if it will run fast.
I would love to buy a SSD hard drive for this laptop. A 1 TB one. But I can’t afford it right now. I do plan on upgrading the RAM soon too. The RAM upgrade would be before the SSD upgrade.
What do you guys think?
On Sat 01 Nov 2014 09:56:01 PM CDT, linuxguy0481 wrote:
Here are the specs to my laptop:
http://tinyurl.com/m5s4ut4
m5s4ut4 ->
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c03943159&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=6521424&ssf=1
I currently have Windows 8.1 64 bit on my laptop. Still the same stock 4
gb of RAM. Windows 8.1 runs okay. Not the performance I wanted. I’m
looking for a fast system. I plan on running Wine too for the programs
that are not compatible with Suse Linux. I just want to know if it will
run fast.
I would love to buy a SSD hard drive for this laptop. A 1 TB one. But I
can’t afford it right now. I do plan on upgrading the RAM soon too. The
RAM upgrade would be before the SSD upgrade.
What do you guys think?
Hi
It should work fine, maybe have some issues with dual booting (just
need to press the F9 key and select the efi to boot).
If you don’t use the dvd much, get a caddy (~US$10) for the dvd drive
slot and put the existing HDD in that in it’s place with a smaller SSD.
In fact if you don’t use windows much, leave it on the HDD and just get
a 128GB SSD for openSUSE.
8GB of RAM wouldn’t go amiss on it, but even a cheaper 7200rpm HDD would
make a difference rather than the 5400rpm one it has. I have a Crucial
M500 120G SSD (~US$70) in this system, only a dual core but boots in
around 10-15 seconds…
I’m guessing the system is SATAIII eg 6Gb/s?
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You can try LXQT if you want a faster system or even Enlightenment if you can put up with the bling.
No way to answer that for certain, other than to say try it and find out. The new openSUSE could be faster, or the Win system could be faster, depends on a lot of things concerning your hardware.
As Malcolm and John point out, these things could help:
Faster drive
More memory
Lighter desktop
Even KDE can be faster by turning off the bells & whistles.
Good luck.
While your mileage will vary, I’d agree that you’re likely to notice a bigger performance boost by purchasing an ssd before the ram. I’ve been eyeing up the 250 Gig EVO from Samsung, and holiday specials are right around the corner. 
On my system openSUSE 13.2 KDE 64bit is lighting fast, on par with windows 8.1 even in virtualbox.
But hardware determines much