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I have just replaced the Hitachi 160GB 2.5" SATA disk with a Kingston 96GB 2.5" SSD.

Create a boot SDHC using a computer with network access to download the desktop ISO and an SDHC adapter.

System Tools -> Administration -> Startup Disk Creator

When booting the Revo, press F12 to select to boot from USB card reader.

I dislike Unity:

$ sudo apt-get install gnome

Log-off, and at the log-on prompt select "Gnome clasic (no effects)" from the little splat-menu by your username, and log-on.

I want propper scroll-bars:

$ gsettings get com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode
'overlay-auto'
$ gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal

Enable trim and disable writing atime to preserve SSD life:

$ sudo gedit /etc/fstab

And add the options discard and noatime to the partitions on the SSD, like this:

UUID=22c6bea7-d2e6-49fe-8668-102170ebc58b / ext4 discard,noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1