Is this HP laptop any good?

Jason Hutchinson

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Hey my little brother got a new laptop for Christmas and gave me his old one. I havent used it much but doesnt seem very fast. How old are these specs and realistically what could I do on it? Any light/medium gaming? Please let me know :)

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HP 2000 Notebook PC, Windows 8, x64-based PC, AMD E-300 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics, 1300 Mhz, 2 core (s) 2 logical processor RAM 4.00 GB, total virtual memory 6.87GB, version 6.2.9200 build 9200, excellent condition
 
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If it's 64-bit Windows, adding more RAM would help as 4GB is considered to be below bare minimum these days (that's why 64-bit Windows is now commonplace).

Other than that, there's little you can do to improve it's performance, though you may want to give the HDD a defrag and get rid of any junk software that you don't need (to free up some space to give Windows more breathing space).

jaslion

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Anything more than light office work an webbrowsing would be too much for it. It could even struggle to play back youtube video's at higher resolutions.
 
If it's 64-bit Windows, adding more RAM would help as 4GB is considered to be below bare minimum these days (that's why 64-bit Windows is now commonplace).

Other than that, there's little you can do to improve it's performance, though you may want to give the HDD a defrag and get rid of any junk software that you don't need (to free up some space to give Windows more breathing space).
 
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unspeakable

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That Processor is pretty old and the IGPU that comes with it is not going to work for gaming, unless it's mine craft or less. Otherwise it's probably a great laptop, and if it has good-great battery life it can totally be a school or college laptop. Since gaming is kind of out of the question then I reccomend NOT upgrading ram, as it will be a waste of $10-$70 (RAM Prices are all across the board) and 4gb is fine.