A family member found one of these in storage yesterday, forgot we had it. Windows 7 was corrupted and only barely worked in safe mode, whatever replacing hdd anyway. Had a spare super cheap chinese ssd lying around, and stuck it in. It apparently already had linux lite on it from some other project, and just instantly worked when turned on. After some use and updates and stuff fan was loud, laptop was hot. Fan was completely clogged, so unclogged it and replaced thermal paste, was so much quieter I thought I broke the fan lol. Battery is shot as expected. It can play 1080p youtube videos just barely with a slight hiccup every so often. It works decent for what it is, and I have the 8gb ram coming in the mail. Hope it makes some things smoother at least a little even with the lethargic cpu. But hey, it plays osrs, as does pretty much every other computer ever, so good enough lol
My Wife have this ACER AO756 with celeron 877 and its still alive right now. Problem is battery is dead, some keys not functioning. It currently have 500GB HDD and 8GB ram and it took a little over a minute to boot. Very Slow. But I will be upgrading this to SSD and hope faster boot times and browsing times as a back up laptop. HDD is speed is awful. I already ordered a replacement keyboard for this, cheap one. I didn't know it can have more than 8GB of Ram. I still would like to use this on the go for basic tasks and media consumption.
What is the maximum capacity of HDD disk that could be put in? Want to use it as a home NAS and install a 2.5" with 2 or 4 TB HDD disk. What do you think?
I would assume the Disk Space is uncapped, unlike Ram. I’d assume any SSD or HDD would fit as long as it’s SATA compatible the SSD I put in was a Crucial - MX500 500GB Internal SSD
I’m not sure unfortunately but I know with Laptops the processor is soldered to the motherboard, you might be able to research what motherboards will fit your laptop and swap the whole motherboard
Hi. I did just bought 8gb ram, plus with the original one 2gb. But what i want to know is, is it possible ti upgrade its processor from celeron to i5/i7? Thanks
Yes and No. the BGA process need special tools to solder it to the motherboard properly. It might be more beneficial to find a whole motherboard replacement with a better processor in it
Thank you very much for so detailed explanations and advises, dear Jordan!
Thank you so much for this useful video
I have this laptop and I will upgrade it today
128GB SSD HD and 8GB RAM is enough for basic tasks I think
I had a computer place clone everything from my old harddrive to a solid state one and everything was exactly the same.
A family member found one of these in storage yesterday, forgot we had it. Windows 7 was corrupted and only barely worked in safe mode, whatever replacing hdd anyway. Had a spare super cheap chinese ssd lying around, and stuck it in. It apparently already had linux lite on it from some other project, and just instantly worked when turned on. After some use and updates and stuff fan was loud, laptop was hot. Fan was completely clogged, so unclogged it and replaced thermal paste, was so much quieter I thought I broke the fan lol. Battery is shot as expected. It can play 1080p youtube videos just barely with a slight hiccup every so often. It works decent for what it is, and I have the 8gb ram coming in the mail. Hope it makes some things smoother at least a little even with the lethargic cpu.
But hey, it plays osrs, as does pretty much every other computer ever, so good enough lol
Old Netbooks are gold!
Im always using one to connect to my raspberry pi via X2Go :D
They do they job for sure!
I have 16 gb ram and vertex 90gb ssd, it’s been running that way for over 10 years I’m guessing, probably longer. It’s good for what it is.
Definitely!
I got this laptop for 15usd wow very powerful i upgrades hdd with ssd and 8gb of ram everything running smooth...
15! wow
My Wife have this ACER AO756 with celeron 877 and its still alive right now. Problem is battery is dead, some keys not functioning. It currently have 500GB HDD and 8GB ram and it took a little over a minute to boot. Very Slow. But I will be upgrading this to SSD and hope faster boot times and browsing times as a back up laptop. HDD is speed is awful. I already ordered a replacement keyboard for this, cheap one. I didn't know it can have more than 8GB of Ram. I still would like to use this on the go for basic tasks and media consumption.
I have 12GB Ram the SSD will add slightly faster load times like I mentioned in the video
I did the same things and had to go from windows 7 to 10. It works for me for what I do with it....browsing and emails.
Solid little laptop for everyday tasks
Yep. I got mine in 2012.@@JordanHandwerker
What is the maximum capacity of HDD disk that could be put in? Want to use it as a home NAS and install a 2.5" with 2 or 4 TB HDD disk. What do you think?
I would assume the Disk Space is uncapped, unlike Ram. I’d assume any SSD or HDD would fit as long as it’s SATA compatible the SSD I put in was a Crucial - MX500 500GB Internal SSD
Hello, I have Acer Aspire One D255e is it able to upgrade i mean Replacing processor or video card/graphics card?
I’m not sure unfortunately but I know with Laptops the processor is soldered to the motherboard, you might be able to research what motherboards will fit your laptop and swap the whole motherboard
Did this laptop come with bluetooth 4.0 built in??
Not that I know of, it’s from 2012 so I highly doubt it. Unfortunately I gave the laptop to a family member so I wouldn’t be able to check
I cant get the screws out of mine they look damaged. Any tips that I can try?
Unfortunately I think your only option is trying a slightly larger screw driver and applying a bit more pressure.
Hi. I did just bought 8gb ram, plus with the original one 2gb. But what i want to know is, is it possible ti upgrade its processor from celeron to i5/i7? Thanks
Yes and No. the BGA process need special tools to solder it to the motherboard properly. It might be more beneficial to find a whole motherboard replacement with a better processor in it
May i know what type of i5 motherboard that fit to this AO756 aspire one laptop?
@@sapaiawang8805 I don’t know what it would be off the top of my head but a google search will lead you in the right direction
I still have this laptop lol
Was a good laptop for it’s time ☺️
@@JordanHandwerker it still is imo. for what i do with a laptop (internet browsing and old games), it's fine!
Max capacity of ram?
I think the factory max is like 8GB if I remember correctly but I have 12GB in it now
@@JordanHandwerker is that normally run and no error?
@@JordanHandwerker like corrupted or error
Yeah I have no issues with the amount of ram I have in my computer
@@JordanHandwerker is that detected and functional? I want to buy 8 gigs of ram lol but i already have 4gigs
I will upgrade it to 4gb ram
Awesome