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HP Pavillion dv5-1235dx from 2008

Someone had this near mint, 16-year old HP Pavillion dv5 and they asked me if I could help bring it up to more current standards, so I replaced the original 320 GB hard drive with a 480 GB SSD and upgraded the original Windows Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Ultimate. I also installed Supermium as a replacement for Chrome, along with Firefox ESR as an option. The SSD improved the usability quite a lot and now the main speed limitation is the 2 GHz Core 2 Duo CPU, but overall it's still not too bad for browsing the web and watching YouTube videos.

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