It’s a shame that such a large percentage of laptops still come with slow, 5400 RPM, mechanical hard drives. A solid state hard drive not only boosts performance substantially, but also improves ...

It's always a good thing if you can keep older tech from going to the landfill, and old laptops are no exception. They often work perfectly except for a few things, including the speed of the physical ...

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, ...

Installing an SSD is one of the most straightforward upgrades you can do to your PC — the only one with fewer steps is installing new memory. That makes it a great way to try out upgrading your PC by ...

I just replaced my old pre-Santa Rosa Core2Duo MBP with a new i7 model. The new laptop has a 256 GB SSD and goes from chime to desktop in 9.5 seconds. I'm assuming a lot of that boot speed is the ...

The following suggestions will help if your Windows 11/10 PC won’t boot after upgrading or installing a new SSD. Make sure that the SSD is installed correctly Is the SSD showing in the BIOS? Change ...