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Yesterday I bought 4GB of DDR3 RAM and a 240GB MAXTOR SSD. Installed it in the lenovo laptop. And the started the vicious OS installation drama. I won't write the whole tale, but there were two issues. 1. Linux Mint's GRUB bootloader crashed when installing with UEFI on. 2. Windows won't recover existing installation. Anyway after about 5 hours I was done and Windows and Linux were humming along nicely. Now about performance improvement: things have become great. The processor is the only slow thing in this laptop now. And even then it's adequate for most of the things I am doing on this. Windows 7 boots in about 30 seconds. Linux - even faster. I have about 10 tabs open in Firefox including 1 GMail and couple of google drive documents. Nothing is slow. Anyway, the cost was a bit high because I got the hardware from a local shop. Online it would have been cheaper, but getting good RAM online is tricky. Anyway it was INR 2000/- ($29) for 4GB DDR3 RAM and INR 3250/- ($47)...

After dual booting I started getting this issue. Time would be incorrect when I switched from windows to linux or vice versa. Cause is the OS's consider RTC to be UTC time. And switch it to local time. And when both consider it UTC then actual time is messed up. So I decided to have windows keep using UTC time and switched ubuntu to local time. 1. Disable UTC and use Local Time in Ubuntu: In previous Ubuntu editions, you can edit the config file /etc/default/rcS to disable UTC. In Ubuntu 16.04, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run the command below instead: timedatectl set-local-rtc 1 --adjust-system-clock To check out if your system uses Local time, just run: timedatectl