Toshiba Refurb./Win-7 ultimate

[dddave]

A friend in the Philippines laptop was dropped and destroyed.  She replaced it with a refurb Toshiba A350 with Win-7 Ultimate, a 10+ year old model. 

It was cheap for the Philippines, equivalent of about B5500 which is what similar refurbs sell for on Lazada.  She needed it for an online course she was taking and it seems to support a webcam and work ok on Zoom.

The machine has 4gb ram with a Intel core duo P8600 processor running Win-7 Ultimate.  

Would a machine such as this support Win-10 or would it be better off just letting it be?  SSD? 

[HappyExpat57]

It doesn't appear on this list:

http://win10upgrade.toshiba.com/win10cu/ModelList.aspx?region=TAIS&lang=en&country=US

 

And - if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Win 7 is fine for what you described were her requirements.

[Bruno123]

Oh my...super technical advice.

 

Simple answer; Yes and yes. I have a similarly old Toshiba. It will benefit greatly from a clean install to SSD. 4 GB of RAM is fine. SSD will make the biggest difference. Windows 10 Pro will run smoothly. Device will start up a lot more quickly than it does now and the device will work optimally, better and faster than when new. 500 baht can cover it.

 

But who will be doing the work? 

You should use the Genuine Ticket method to take a record of the activation; that you'll need to transfer to the clean install of Windows 10 to the SSD.

Edited September 21, 2021 by Bruno123