Re: What notebook did you buy?

[Ed Wurster <glassnet -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Amanda_Abelove -at- toyota -dot- com wrote:

> Has anyone managed to upgrade their laptop the same way you upgrade a
> desktop?  Swapping out hard drives modems to upgrade over time?  My Dell
> can't be upgraded.  It gets to be the one I leave at home for random
> idiocy of friends who want to look for the latest crazy celebrity
> download.

The only upgrade for a laptop that makes financial sense is memory.
Notebook computer hardware is more expensive, and you can quickly
spend very close to the cost of a baseline notebook. You can replace
the hard drive, but could run into setup problems.

If you have the original setup CD, buy a memory upgrade and reload everything.

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