This is from my own experiance with my laptop (specs in my sig). Its an older laptop, and it was running slow as all hell. At first i blamed the rather clunky Ubuntu 14.04 OS it came loaded with. I was right to do that, as putting Zoran OS (lightweight ubuntu 16.04 Windows lookalike) helped running a lot. But it still took an eternity to boot and shut down. I had an SSD sitting in my desk that i was always hesitant about putting in, i was planning on selling it because i wasnt sure it would...
For those of you on the fence about SSD's
For those of you on the fence about SSD's