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How to upgrade an Acer Aspire V5 122P to SSD

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Just two weeks ago I've upgrade my Acer v5 to SSD, and to my surprise, by following these tutorials, everything worked as expected ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8OJTZGdVq4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBJsh-lkQt8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm7xY_hviaY

For those who doesn’t know about the Acer Aspire V5, I think it’s the cheapest touchscreen Win8 ultrabook on the market. I forced myself to use it as development machine (running visual studio 2012, R#, SQL Server and all that stuff) and for 450 bucks, it’s more than I expected.

The touchpad is decent enough (although it can be better), the keyboard works great and by throwing another 100 for a SSD into the mix, increased the overall system performance, making the Acer a budget dev machine.

The only drawbacks I found so far it’s the AMD 1GHz processor (of course you cannot change that) and the plastic case, but for the price I payed for it, I’m more than satisfied. If you are on a budget, I highly recommend the Aspire v5.

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  1. babuDecember 1, 2013 at 4:54 AM

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 1, 2014 at 3:03 AM

    thanks for your kind videos and suggestion for upgrade an Acer Aspire V5 on youtube.
    Acer Aspire Laptop

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  3. MladenJanuary 1, 2017 at 3:23 PM

    Did the upgrade make a difference in the performance?
    Mine is slow as hellllll

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    1. UnknownJanuary 2, 2017 at 9:25 AM

      Yeah, it got better. (Keep in mind I've used this machine for programming. I don't know about other use cases such as gaming or video streaming and alike).

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  4. UnknownJanuary 18, 2017 at 1:23 AM

    can aspire v5 support 16gb ram ?

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    1. UnknownJanuary 18, 2017 at 8:43 AM

      Sadly, no. It can only handle up to 6GB. (It has only one memory slot).
      Here is the full spec: https://www.acer.com/ac/en/KH/content/model/NX.M8WST.009

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