Upgrade Your Computer - Don't Buy A New One

[VaTom]

My wife and I have separate computers as she is an avid photographer and stores thousands of photo. Eight years ago I bought an HP ProBrook 4540s Laptop with Windows7. Has been a great machine but in the last year it slowed down to the point that it was an aggravation to use and difficult to connect to the internet.

I contacted a friend who works in IT and has a side business of working on computers. He upgraded the software / operating system and installed a Kingston Technology Solid State 240 GB Drive, transferred all files and bookmarks.

The laptop is superfast now and operates like new. Cost was $110 with $12 family/friends discount.

I am happy.

 

[DWalt]

Right now I have three obsolete laptops in the garage. I think they are XPs and Windows 7s. They still work (I suppose) but I just never felt it was that worthwhile to have them refurbished, especially updating to Windows 10. Sure that if I did, something fatal like a hard drive crash would probably happen to them. My current laptop is a 17" HP I've had for almost 4 years, and it is easily the best laptop I've had, at least so far. Got it cheap as an "Open Box" sale item at Best Buy, for about 1/3 off list price. My wife's Lenovo is pretty good, but I don't often use it. Believe it or not, I have a NIB laptop in storage as a spare just in case I ever need it. Got it at a Black Friday sale at Best Buy almost 3 years ago.

 

[bigwheelzip]

My wife and I have separate computers as she is an avid photographer and stores thousands of photo.
......installed a Kingston Technology Solid State 240 GB Drive........

You should have backups, preferably off-site, for those digital photos and files.
Yes, solid state operating system drives are a good investment.
Enjoy.



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[Racer X]

I have a HP Probook 4520 with max ram an SSD drive and windows 10. Runs fine as my back up/travel machine. My main stuff is all Apple.

 

[coltle6920]

Just my opinion but I believe there's a limit to what can be upgraded. I'm thinking the motherboard plays a big role in what it will accept as upgrades. There has to be a point where technology is no longer backwards compatible.

Again just my opinion.

 

[LVSteve]

I need to upgrade the memory in our laptops. The bloatware that masquerades as the operating system and popular programs has an appetite for silicon that's close to insatiable.

 

[wood714]

My wife and I have separate computers as she is an avid photographer and stores thousands of photo.
I am happy.

You should have backups, preferably off-site, for those digital photos and files.
Yes, solid state operating system drives are a good investment.
Enjoy.

I did multitudes of photography work till around 6 years ago. Still take a lot of pictures, but mostly nature stuff instead of model portfolios.

You can't have too many back ups.

Just from my model work I have 31,441 pictures on 4 different drives and a online back up.

 

[Ματθιας]

Just my opinion but I believe there's a limit to what can be upgraded. I'm thinking the motherboard plays a big role in what it will accept as upgrades. There has to be a point where technology is no longer backwards compatible.

Again just my opinion.

This ^^^^^

I had a vintage Macbook that I had to use when my newer Macbook got left at a friend's house.

I forget what OS it was, I think it was 10.3, anyway, I couldn't upgrade to the latest OS as it just wasn't compatible with that vintage of computer 2003. The OS was so old, some of the websites wouldn't function.

 

[DWalt]

I don't know what the cost is of upgrading an old Windows OS to Windows 10, but I imagine it's not cheap. As all my old laptops are Windows XP or Windows 7, if I upgraded, I would definitely want Windows 10. Not sure it would be worth it.

 

[wood714]

I don't know what the cost is of upgrading an old Windows OS to Windows 10, but I imagine it's not cheap. As all my old laptops are Windows XP or Windows 7, if I upgraded, I would definitely want Windows 10. Not sure it would be worth it.

I like Win 7 pro way better than Win 10.

And to speed things up a SSD drive will do the trick.

 

[steveno]

my old laptop was a Windows 7 that was upgraded to W10 and it worked but I wasn't impressed and wished I had kept W7. the cooling fan died so I went and I bought a HP laptop which has W10 from the start and I like it a lot better than the old laptop with the upgrade

 

[richardbrentm]

Right now I have three obsolete laptops in the garage. I think they are XPs and Windows 7s. They still work (I suppose) but I just never felt it was that worthwhile to have them refurbished, especially updating to Windows 10.
Most computers running XP and Windows 7 may have a problem upgrading to windows 10. I had a HP that was running Windows 7 and repeatedly true to upgrade to Windows 10 but after numerous attempts I went to Microsoft's website and they told me that it failed because the graphic cards driver wouldn't upgrade. I'm still running Windows 7, but with no security updates I am very careful.


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[tnmandpshooter]

To late,

I took my old hp desk top with windows xp and trashed it and instead had an ibuypower windows 10 machine built and bought a 24" scepter monitor for it.

I like the new computer as its super fast and has an updated graphics card in case I want to do stuff.

I love it.

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[CAJUNLAWYER]

Will your guy update a Windows 95??? Asking for a friend

 

[lkabug]

Will your guy update a Windows 95??? Asking for a friend

So "your friend" up graded from their DOS 3.1?

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

So "your friend" up graded from their DOS 3.1?

With dual floppies no less

 

[BillBond]

You are lucky to find a computer expert that can actually do the upgrades.
Every "expert" I find is a putz and causes a new problem for every old one they fix.

 

[J. R. WEEMS]

COMPUTERS

My wife and I have separate computers as she is an avid photographer and stores thousands of photo. Eight years ago I bought an HP ProBrook 4540s Laptop with Windows7. Has been a great machine but in the last year it slowed down to the point that it was an aggravation to use and difficult to connect to the internet.

I contacted a friend who works in IT and has a side business of working on computers. He upgraded the software / operating system and installed a Kingston Technology Solid State 240 GB Drive, transferred all files and bookmarks.

The laptop is superfast now and operates like new. Cost was $110 with $12 family/friends discount.

I am happy.

I bet!! Wish he could do something with my 17" APPLE -- its beyond upgrades.

 

[H Richard]

When I bought my wife a new computer (Lenovo) with W10, I took to my IT Tech and had him transfer all the stuff from her previous old machine to the new one and set it up to "look like" Windows 7. She has gotten along very well with it. I plan to replace my W7 laptop later this year with a W10 and do the same.

 

[GypsmJim]

In the old days I always upgraded, mostly to save money and not have to transfer a lot of programs and data.

You know what? A year later after upgrading as far as the MB would allow, I ended up getting a new one anyway.