First off I would like to thank you for your time! I appreciate your opinion and help.
lets get to it. I have a satellite A505 toshiba laptop. It is an Intel core i3 with 4gb ram and a GeForce 310m (removable). I have all but abandoned this old guy, turning to my ipad and phone for most of my needs. I recently decided to get back into using it and partitioned 40gb of my harddrive and am now running linux mint. This made a world of difference in speed. I finally enjoy my laptop again.
Now, my battery is toast as this thing is like 5 years old... so I would need to replace that. I am considering adding 4gb of ram, and possibly upgrading the graphics card. Is this pointless on such an old rig? If so... should I upgrade to building my own desktop, or stick to the more portable sylish couterpart?
I hope to game some (dayz mod) and mostly surf the net. Thanks again for your time and I look forward to your response!
lets get to it. I have a satellite A505 toshiba laptop. It is an Intel core i3 with 4gb ram and a GeForce 310m (removable). I have all but abandoned this old guy, turning to my ipad and phone for most of my needs. I recently decided to get back into using it and partitioned 40gb of my harddrive and am now running linux mint. This made a world of difference in speed. I finally enjoy my laptop again.
Now, my battery is toast as this thing is like 5 years old... so I would need to replace that. I am considering adding 4gb of ram, and possibly upgrading the graphics card. Is this pointless on such an old rig? If so... should I upgrade to building my own desktop, or stick to the more portable sylish couterpart?
I hope to game some (dayz mod) and mostly surf the net. Thanks again for your time and I look forward to your response!