A December 2018 update

The 2009 laptop mentioned previously has been removed from use. I purchased a similar one on eBay. The replacement is several months older and not as fast. I inserted the memory from from my older unit to expand the laptop memory. I also replaced the wifi card with my previous one. The speed of the recently acquired unit was much slower.

I've installed Windows 1809 without problems. I assume this is proof of the mechanical failure of the audio system in the previous unit.

I have accumulated four 1TB hard drives. The current laptop has a 150GB hard drive  whiuch I have kept. Any activity requiring a large drive space can be done by simply plugging one of the drives into a USB port. I inserted three of the drives into inexpensive USB enclosures and the third is a Western Digital MyBook which came in its own case.

This laptop will be archive instead of the one that failed.

The speeds in use now require a faster computer. My internet speed is 100mbs. The laptop averages 20mbs on 2.5ghz wifi. The laptop cannot use the 5ghz band.

My iPhone SE averages
20mbs on data and
40 on my router/modem 2.5ghz band and
100mbs on the 5ghz band.

I need to replace the router when I replace the laptop. This will give me the maximum access to the internet.