Solid-state drives are all the rage. Since SSDs have no moving parts, they’re more rugged and shock-resistant than standard hard drives–which makes them perfect for laptops that get bumped around a ...

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Adding more memory or storage, or swapping in a new battery or wireless card, can help squeeze a few more years out of that aging laptop. Here's how to figure out what you can upgrade, and how to do ...

Hard-drive maker Seagate is going mobile. The Scotts Valley, Calif., company will introduce on Monday a new line of hard drives for notebook PCs, a move that marks the company's return to the mobile ...

My first hard drive was just 40 MB. Back then, circa 1990, the only reason you'd upgrade a hard drive was to increase your storage space. But, today, with the recent introduction of new hard-drive ...

There are many ways to make a slow laptop faster, but few are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD). Making the swap will, in most cases, ...

The latest Intel-based laptops are bringing a new level of portable performance to the table, even on lower-end models. For about a thousand bucks, you can get yourself a powerful Tiger Lake-based ...

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Laptops with ample storage can be pricey, especially because they don’t go on sale as often as smaller options do. I’ve seen it so many times — a base model laptop goes on sale for hundreds of dollars ...

I currently use an old Acer Aspire laptop from 2003.<BR><BR>1.5 GHZ Pentium M<BR>2 GB DDR RAM<BR>ATI video<BR>80GB IDE/ATA drive<BR>Windows XP SP2<BR><BR>I have tried to upgrade the hard drive to an ...