Me Ma's Dell (dual core) went to a standstill with the disc aging/dying
She got everything off it on a stick, and then bought another machine. Hers literally started up and then would freeze for 10 minutes, and then would respond but then freeze again
I trialled a version of Linux on it (Fedora), as it loaded onto the hard disc a pop up came up and said something like "Hard disc failing"
I put ubuntu 13.10 (version at the time), and it lasted a year an a half on it
Chromebooks are linux as far as I'm aware. Once you've got your data off. Buy a ?1 Ubuntu 14.10 disc off ebay, and you'll get a couple of years more out of it
Posted By: pants on May 1st 2015 at 11:53:07
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