Just as the experts predict another recession - if/when the Euro goes down the pan.
Fear not. Techno-scrooge is here.
For anywhere from £50 to £200 you can give that old laptop* a new lease of life (*2-5 years – depending on manufacturer). The cheapest new laptop worth bothering about would set you back a minimum of £250 and at this price point – it will not be all singing, all dancing.
There are three main components which, when upgraded, should dramatically increase the performance of you old laptop.
1. The processor = brain
2. The memory = short term memory
3. The hard drive = long term memory
First. Quite surprisingly, the processor has huge scope for an upgrade. With it sometimes* being possible to leap from a slow single core unit to a reasonably fast dual core or quad core CPU.
Second. D
oubling the amount of existing memory will give a nice boost to performance (if permitted by the operating system/BIOS/motherboard).
Third. Conventional hard drives in the physical size needed to fit laptops are now readily available in rather large capacities of up to 750Gb.
If your budget permits, as a recommended extra, a fresh start with a newly installed operating system would put the icing on the cake – if you at not afraid of change or low on funds, there are free operating system options available.
