You can’t change the hardware, so change the OS
There are several ways to revive an old laptop that is too lazy to run under Windows. There’s no need to move to full Linux unless it’s necessary. That old CPU and motherboard runs pretty well on a lighter footprint OS, and that’s exactly what Chrome OS Flex specializes in.
For their guide, they used a 10-year-old Lenovo B575e with a Zacate-era AMD E2-1800 with an HD 7340 iGPU and 4GB of DDR3. Replacing the original HDD with an SSD would technically allow the laptop to run Windows 10, but even with that upgrade, it would be horribly slow. increase. It’s not on the official list, but it’s been successfully tested.
Let’s see how you can try this yourself.
