The free memory upgrade is back. PC sales held up better than expected last year. But the beginning of the year is usually a slow period and computer companies are looking for any angle to get us to ...

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 ...

May Sherrod's 4-year-old Dell laptop worked great until last month. That's when she took it to Intrex Computers on Glenwood Avenue to have more memory installed. But when she went to pick it up two ...

Is it worth it to upgrade a laptop’s RAM or storage? We had a chance to find out when Dell asked us to test the upgradability of its Inspiron 15 7000. I admit that as I faced this challenge, I started ...

Want better performance from your laptop? The conventional wisdom has long held that you should simply buy a new one. You can put such conventional wisdom aside: Upgrading a laptop may not be for the ...

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There are many, many cases where a computer that's "moving slow" or running "so crash-y" can work perfectly fine again with a boost in its available RAM, or memory. Because, honestly, the processor ...

If I were to upgrade the amount of RAM in a laptop, would it be as easy as cracking open the case and adding a standard DIMM? I seem to remember a thread with a link to Dell's tech pages that showed ...