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, ...

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 ...

Father Tom Gillespie (a father, not a Father) seeks advice to help his son. He writes: My son bought a PowerBook in 2005. It works fine except for a crashed disk drive. Our local Apple Store wanted ...

Replacing an ancient mechanical drive with a super-speedy solid-state drive is one of the best upgrades you can make to a desktop or laptop computer. Though it won’t turn your 8-year-old HP into a new ...

My brother's laptop (a Toshiba Satellite that's about 3 years old) has gotten a few BSODs over the past few weeks, and I suspect the hard drive is dying. I need to run some hard drive tests first, but ...

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, ...