Is my DV7 "old" yet, or still worth upgrading?

I am currently using a DV7-3188cl and it runs well. I have had it for a few years and I have never had any issues or problems with it. It has never crashed or anything like that. It seems to be keeping up quite well with newer laptops.
I am debating on weather to get a new laptop when my taxes come back or if I should save some cash and drop a SSD in it to refresh it a bit.

My DV7 runs on an i5-430M @ 2.26-2.53, Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit, 8GB ram, has 2 320GB 7200RPM hard drives, and Nvidia GeForce G105M.

New laptops are running above 3 GHz...is that much of a jump?

 

depends on what you are doing. if you are not gaming much its still a great little unit if it has never given problems. if you are not taking it or need extra battery life or GPU Power I say grab an SSD and upgrade it

 

"Little" lol....17.3 screen. guess I didn't mention that. Anyways, I game a little bit. Though it's mostly Minecraft and that doesn't take a lot. It's not too bad with most of the games I play on Steam, but it can't handle most newer games with the graphics all the way up. That's to be expected.

(oh, and since ur a moderator....how do I add a sig?, not to threadjack my own thread....)

 

get your post count up a little bit ( 15 I believe ) then go to userCP ( user control panel ) and under " My Settings " there is the signature link and you can add away. but please follow forum rules on signatures.

and no worries on threadjacking your own. Im pretty easy going

 

It's 5 posts for the sig IIRC.

Anyways, that HP isn't old for the basic stuff, I still use my N50 with a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo as my bedside laptop so I can browse the web from my bed in the morning during weekends, watch movies check e-mails and of course browse NBR at 2am to get me some spammers.

As for the is it that much of a jump: depends on what you do, if you're a power user, it is, if you aren't, it isn't.

 

I might as well just do an SSD upgrade and wait until I find a good deal on a newer model. I love my DV7...I think I'll stick with HP. The only complaint I really have is mine doesn't have an illuminated keyboard. Is there a way to add one? I doubt newer DV series laptop keyboards would fit my older model.

 

If your model had it as an option, you could likely drop one in and have the right connector on the motherboard, but otherwise, it may or may not be possible and even if it it, it's not going be a simple swap.

 

I just looked into it...mine has no connector on the motherboard...so the deskside lamp it is!