laptop upgrade questions

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by languy99, Jan 20, 2008.

  1. languy99

    languy99 Corporal

    i have an older dell inspiron 8100 laptop and I was thinking of upgrading it. The two main parts I was looking at was the hard drive and the ram. Mainly because those are the only parts that can be upgraded on this pc. I am looking for the biggest speed boost because it is too slow. Right now i have 256MB pc133 ram and 30GB 4200 rpm hard drive. My two options are 512MB ram upgrade or 80 GB 5200 RPM drive. Which of these two do you think is a better upgrade? I mostly use the laptop for internet and word processing.
     
    languy99, Jan 20, 2008
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  2. Fred_G

    Fred_G Heat packin' geek

    I hate the slow RPM's of laptops hard drives. I would go with the RAM upgrade. Should help you out more, but the faster hard drive would be nice also.


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    Last edited: Jan 20, 2008
    Fred_G, Jan 20, 2008
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