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 ...

That was 15 years ago. Today there are many good reasons for upgrading a hard drive. With the recent introduction of new hard-drive technologies such as SATA, Native Command Queuing (NCQ), larger ...

Gateway updated its lowest-priced notebook Monday as part of a continuing effort to use lower prices to gain share in the PC market. The company's new Solo 1450, starting at $999, offers a 1.2GHz ...

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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 ...

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

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, ...

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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 ...