JoLin
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I have a 3 1/2 year old Toshiba Satellite running Win 8.1, with 500 gig hard drive and 6 gigs of ram. It's about perfect for my use with a nice big screen. I don't do graphics or gaming and the hard drive is less than 1/4 full. I maintain it by running disk cleanup often and making sure the hard drive is defragged.
It seems to be running slower than it used to, and I assume that the software I run (which gets upgraded on a regular basis) is demanding resources that are stretching the hardware to the limit.
Rather than buy a new laptop, I'm thinking about increasing Ram (it'll take up to 16 gig) and/or installing a SSD drive in place of the current one. Question is, which to do first? I'd like to try the upgrades one at a time, starting with the one that'll give me an immediate improvement. Back before the new drives came along, a ram increase would always give you a pretty good 'pop' in performance, so I'm leaning toward doing that first.
Your thoughts?
It seems to be running slower than it used to, and I assume that the software I run (which gets upgraded on a regular basis) is demanding resources that are stretching the hardware to the limit.
Rather than buy a new laptop, I'm thinking about increasing Ram (it'll take up to 16 gig) and/or installing a SSD drive in place of the current one. Question is, which to do first? I'd like to try the upgrades one at a time, starting with the one that'll give me an immediate improvement. Back before the new drives came along, a ram increase would always give you a pretty good 'pop' in performance, so I'm leaning toward doing that first.
Your thoughts?
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