If you're not able to shell out $1000 or more for a new machine, you can squeeze out a few more years with a storage upgrade for some older MacBook Air or MacBook Pro models. Here's how to do it. This ...

There are many ways to make a slow laptop faster, but few are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD). Making the swap will, in most cases, ...

Replacing an ancient mechanical drive with a super-speedy solid-state drive is one of the best upgrades you can make to a desktop or laptop computer. Though it won’t turn your 8-year-old HP into a new ...

When building a new PC or home lab server, the immediate assumption is that NVMe SSDs would be the better choice for ...

There is one upgrade that will universally improve a laptop’s performance: adding an SSD. This is a particularly attractive upgrade for budget laptops, which typically come with a hard drive. That’s ...

Solid-state drives are universally faster than old-school hard-disk drives, but not all SSDs are the same. They come in different shapes and sizes, have different maximum speeds, and as you might ...

After checking the Intel Product Compatibility Tool, I populated the system with two 16-GB SO-DIMMs for a total of 32GB of RAM (Corsair 32GB Kit 16GBx2 DDR4 2400 MT/S), and installed a 1.8 TB SATA SSD ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Most laptops and computers now come with SSDs for internal storage thanks to their speed and reliability. But these drives are often on the ...

The importance of firmware updates can't be understated. It directly affects the functionality of its associated hardware, so it's important to be on the latest version to get all the new features and ...