Now that the holidays are winding down, you probably have a good or at least pretty good lot of cash. :P What you do with this is at your leisure, but if you have a slow computer and want to speed it up for a low price of maybe 40 or so dollars, then invest the money in some RAM. I had a $20 gift card for Best Buy today, and bought 2 1 Gig RAM chips for my computer. (I initially fried the first ones because apparently there is a problem with short-circuiting them whenever you touch it due to static electricity.... I didn't know that.) Now, my computer does a really significantly faster load up, from about 10 minutes to a nice 1-2 minutes. :D The memory was on sale, for $20 a gig, but well worth it.
Installation was easy too! I just took off the back cover of my laptop, pressed two sides of a mechanism and out popped the old RAM, you just slide in the new RAM. (Of course this varies by makers I am guessing and the type of RAM needed, make sure you know what kind you need before you go, or you could ask your friendly Geek-Squad or something.)
The basic point of this thread is to tell you that if you think your computer might not be as good as it used to be, you might wanna look into RAM, it is a cheap, safe and good way to help with making a slower computer faster or more manageable. :D
WARNING!! - Look online for instructions and please know that you could fry the new or old memory, even a vital component on the laptop if you don't discharge your static. You can buy a grounding anti-static wrist band, touch a piece of unpainted/finished metal frequently or have someone install it for a fee (I paid $40, only because after I fried it at home I didn't wanna have to go home and have the same thing happen to me, and didn't know why it was fried.)
Happy Holidays!
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