Upgrading your laptop's storage to a modern SSD can make a big difference to its performance on paper and how it feels to use. An SSD swap for an old hard drive or adding in a faster NVMe SSD to ...

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 ...

I have managed to put my hands on an Intel X25-M SATA solid state drive (80GB SSD) and tried it in a couple of different machines around here. The first machine I tried it on was my Windows Home ...

There is one upgrade that will universally improve a laptop’s performance: adding an SSD. This is a particularly attractive upgrade for budget laptops, which typically come with a hard drive. That’s ...

As I have mentioned several times recently, the Acer Aspire V3 has very quickly become my favorite laptop. It has a nice 13.3-inch display, it is quite fast, and every Linux distribution I have loaded ...