Recent content by doolin64

Is crucial a good brand? Thank you big nasty. I did watch a few videos about this. I'll be enlisting the help of some techie family members.

From my research it looks like Toshiba says these units are not upgrade able, but looking elsewhere, including this forum, it appears it is. My current system needs a boost. I have a 8g of Ram and 1tb hard drive. I've been advised that going up to 16g, swapping in an SSD and doing a fresh...

Thank you Geekwad. I'm going to weigh the difference between adding more RAM and an SSD versus a laptop upgrade. Going back to my original question...does anyone have any suggestions?

THat's what I was seeing but I found a few videos that show how to remove the back of the laptop to install. I think that's more the issue, access is just not easy.

Here are the specs for my machine: Toshiba P55W B5224 1TB HD of which only (152 gb used) 8 GB Ram i7 -4510u 2.6 GHZ processor. Can I add more ram to this machine? Where is a good place to purchase? If I go to an SSD drive, what brand/where should I look for that? Or am I better off to...

This laptop was purchased with Win 7 and was upgraded to Win 10 within a week of owning it. I wouldn't be opposed to doing this. I will post up the machines specs when I get home to see if it will be sufficient to go this route (harddrive upgrade and clean window's 10 install)

1. What is your budget? $1500 max. Prefer to be around $1000. 2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? I'm a fan of notebooks that have a number pad attached to the keyboard. Portability is not hugely important. Really will only be used in my house. 3. What screen...