The article just sort of stops. Was the ram upgrade helpful? How was the mouse - was it choppy like in Windows XP as discussed at the top of the article? (And whatever happened to twm, possibly the lightest window manager around?)
would love to see twm get active again as well
"I did not expect much, and because the bottlenecks were the HDD and CPU I did not feel any noticeable performance improvement."
Sounds like it started on XP running poorly, and ended on Arch... running poorly.