Overview: Check your laptop’s RAM and SSD compatibility before buying new components.Always back up important data before ...

Adding more memory or storage, or swapping in a new battery or wireless card, can help squeeze a few more years out of that aging laptop. Here's how to figure out what you can upgrade, and how to do ...

The Acer Swift 5 (SF514-54T), refreshed for 2019, is an ultrathin, ultralight 14-inch laptop. It offers impressive battery life, speedy performance, and a comfortable keyboard, making it a viable ...

There are many benefits to upgrading the solid-state drive on your laptop. In addition to getting more storage to store your favorite games and files, you can also opt for a faster drive that will ...

In my last installment of How-to: Upgrade the SSD in your Dell Mini 9 I discussed the process of migrating from the stock STEC 16GB SSD (the brand that comes from Dell) to the faster Runcore brand of ...

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, ...

This week, I replaced the 256 GB SSD in my HP OmniBook 5 16 with a larger-capacity 1 TB SSD. Here's how it went.

Laptops with ample storage can be pricey, especially because they don’t go on sale as often as smaller options do. I’ve seen it so many times — a base model laptop goes on sale for hundreds of dollars ...

While Microsoft touted the serviceability of the SSD inside the Surface Laptop 3 and Surface Pro X at the launch, Microsoft Store service agents tell PCWorld that the drive is replaceable, but not ...

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, ...

If you're thinking about improving your laptop's performance, there are a few guaranteed ways to achieve that without having to be a computer wizard. Swapping an old mechanical drive for a faster SSD ...