#008: Windows 8 Performance on an 8 Year Old Laptop (Thinkpad X41)

I recently retired my good old IBM Thinkpad X41 tablet laptop and decided to experiment with Windows 8. The claim had been that the system requirements were even lower than Windows 7 and I wanted to see just how low that could ually be. In all fairness, I did purchase a 1.8 SSD from eBay as the only upgrade on the machine (the original 4500 RPM hard drive had died). I was absolutely blown away by the speed of this machine with Windows 8 installed! Im going to be installing Photoshop or Illustrator in the near future to see how well it performs with a heavy-duty drawing program while using the stylus and will be sure to post another video here. Mind you, Flash video and other processor-intensive operations are still fairly slow but basic computing is pretty good. This ually brought new life to a machine I had long since written off!!\r
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UPDATE: I have since learned that Windows 8 doesnt truly perform a shut down in the traditional sense --It still executes a hibernation. This means a longer time in the powering down phase since it is writing everything in RAM to the hard drive but it also means much faster startup times. I have long suggested doing this when using laptops due to their slow drives but the f is that it makes sense no matter what youre running. Microsoft has simply forced our hand to always perform a hibernation when powering down and never truly shuts down the OS like we have conventionally though.