Laptops come in all shapes and sizes. Overtime your notebook computer will start to slow down. This is where an upgrade can become quite helpful and bring new life to an older laptop. Unfortunately the nature of laptops brings around some restrictions on what exactly can be upgraded. Unlike a desktop computer where anything can be upgraded laptops are more difficult to upgrade due to ease of access of specific components.
Here are a list of common laptop upgradable components.
Laptop hard drive: upgrading the laptop is a simple procedure that our engineers can carry out. You have the choice of cloning your existing hard drive of a fresh install of the operating system.
Laptop RAM (memory): You’ll find on older laptops upgrading the RAM (random access memory) will give a real speed boot. New systems that get this upgrade the performance will be only noticeable.
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 is the new version of Windows If you are running windows Vista currently you’ll gain a performance boost by upgrading to Windows 7. If however you are running Windows XP the speed difference may not be noticeable but you’ll benefit from all the added bonuses that Windows has to offer.
Optical Drive: Older laptops may only have a CD or DVD drive. Newer optical drives will have the writtale option so you can burn CDs/DVDs and even Blu-Ray playback if your laptop is up for the job.
We try and give our customers the best option for an upgrade on their laptop after an initial inspection. 50% of the time you’ll find a re-install of the operating system or defragmentation of the hard drive may all be that’s required. Give us a call to enquire about laptop upgrades in the Birmingham area.
