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What are the best upgrades for a laptop to increase speed?

I have a Toshiba Satellite A505 model. It has an upgraded LCD screen, a 2-year-old hard drive (I replaced it a while back because of a faulty part).

It's pretty quick considering its age, but that's not saying much.

I'm doing typical college student work, but also working with Camtasia, Photoshop, And some image-heavy PC games.

I've been told to replace the memory, upgrade the RAM, And change the harddrive to an SSD.

I'd love some concrete advice, preferably with a how-to article/video.

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  • Bassman1
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    You would need to buy a new laptop with a faster processor and with a discrete graphics card unfortunately these can not be upgraded in the laptop.

    Look at these and the spec's and compare to your laptop; http://www.toshiba.com/us/gaming_laptops

    Installing new ram memory modules will not speed up the laptop it will let you run more open programs at one time. Installing a new SDD hard drive will make file retrieval and opening of programs slightly faster but at a cost as the SSD hard drives are pricey.

  • Harley Drive
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    SSDs haven't been proven reliable yet , they only last a couple of hundred thousand read/writes and thet doesn't take as long as you might think, easiest improvement is reduce the number of processes running especially updaters that run 24/7 for an occasional update

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