Upgrading a laptop?

[foreverducky]

My laptop which is about 4 years old, really could use an upgrade. I would like to buy a new battery and more memory. Other than that it seems fine.

Has anyone upgraded a laptop? Is it easy to do?

[Britchick]

i upgraded mine about a year ago - memory wise but it's about to explode methinks. I wouldn't spend a lot of money upgrading it tbh

[Skywatcher]

you just knew in your heart that was coming didn't you

[Britchick]

well if mine doesn't explode soon i may be tempted to do something drastic don't tell Jon though!

[foreverducky]

I would love to buy a mac, but sadly I don't have the money.

[Keith]

My laptop which is about 4 years old, really could use an upgrade. I would like to buy a new battery and more memory. Other than that it seems fine.

Has anyone upgraded a laptop? Is it easy to do?

It very much depends on the laptop but generally speaking new battery and memory very simple indeed. Battery nearly always so, memory can be either under a simple to open panel or in extremely rare cases, under the keyboard.

[foreverducky]

I have a Toshiba.

For about $160 I can upgrade both the memory and battery.

[Keith]

Well memory is usually an excellent upgrade! Usually makes an amazing difference

Battery, well if the one you have isnt lasting long any more, time for a new one!

[foreverducky]

Yeah, it's definitely not lasting as long and the memory would give me 2GB. Is that sufficient?

[Keith]

Yeah, it's definitely not lasting as long and the memory would give me 2GB. Is that sufficient?

2GB would be ok for xp but starting to look poor for vista/win7 in my humble opinion

I mean if it's as far as you can take it then it'll be a nice upgrade from 1 but if you could take it further now I would do