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"Ignorance is a plague."
Close, but the plague killed those infected with it, and the ignorant are still alive.
I wish ignorance was a plague.
Posted by: NH Chainsaw Edge
Posted by: Vadam930
You don't upgrade laptops, either. That's the problem with them. Something breaks, you generally have to buy a whole new one.
There generally ain't supposed to be any room for upgrades, a laptop's form factor is so compact, you can only replace the RAM and the HDD.
You can get a pretty big boost in performance by replacing the HDD with a SSD (or even a never HDD, although the benefit/cost ratio has gone down quite a bit recently). This will not give you any better gaming performance, but it will help quite a bit with load times and the general "sluggish" feeling that comes with older laptops. However, a decently large SSD is very expensive; but if you can live with less storage space, you can now get 240GB for just of $200.
If you do have space for two 2.5" HDDs in your laptop, you can keep a 500GB HDD for media storage and a smaller (maybe ~150GB SSD for your OS and programs)
Edit: I hadn't realized how much the cost of SSDs has gone down.
[Edited on 05.30.2012 8:40 AM PDT]