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, ...

I have a Compaq laptop that I use mainly for puttering on when watching TV. I don't do a lot on it other than browsing and some Steam games (Bejewelled Twist, etc). I can't friggen stand how long it ...

When I say old, I mean OLD. I have a 15" 867MHz Titanium. In it's day it was a hot dog, but now it's been relegated to checking and writing e-mail and basic web browsing, like checking the weather ...

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Depending on the model, a Compaq Presario might use a SATA hard drive or an IDE drive. The former is found in most models released after 2003, and the latter in earlier PCs. Replacing an IDE drive is ...

The humble solid state drive has been with us for sometime now and for the life of me I cannot understand why manufacturers still insist on putting hard disk drives (HDDs) into notebooks. Okay so that ...

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, ...