I got this Dell G3 with an IPS full HD screen nearly two years ago, and despite its classification as a “gaming” machine with a dedicated video card with 4GB of VRAM, it always seemed sluggish.

I upgraded the stock 8GB of RAM to 16GB about a year ago, but that made little difference in boot time and app load time.

As I wrote the other day, the 1TB HD had been getting increasingly flaky, so I bought a 1TB SSD. Today I cloned the HD to the SSD, then opened up the machine and swapped the SSD for the HD.

Yowza. It seems to be booting up and loading programs in about half the time now.

Happy boy, eh?