When I bought a new laptop earlier this year, it was after several cautionary notes from fellow ET contributors that I might regret not waiting a few months for Ivy Bridge. I was thrilled with the ...

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, ...

Apple’s MacBook Air has always been a solid and reliable little laptop — even more so when the company ditched the hard drive that was in the original for solid state storage. SSDs are far faster and ...

One way to strengthen the performance of a low-performing laptop is to address the Solid State Drive (SSD). A simple SSD replacement can add years of usability to an aging laptop. Yet, most users ...

Adding more memory or storage, or swapping in a new battery or wireless card, can help squeeze a few more years out of that aging laptop. Here's how to figure out what you can upgrade, and how to do ...

If you thought adding a Bluetooth module to the Acer Aspire One was cool, how about practically squaring the amount of storage available? Tnkgirl is back with part two in her Aspire One hacking series ...

Apple offers few SSD options for its latest MacBook Air models, but now Other World Computing offers three larger, faster SSD replacements. In a combination how-to and review, Ars decided to shove a ...

Wondering whether you should upgrade or replace your laptop? It's a crucial decision that each of us has to face from time to time. And as a creative professional, it couldn't be more important. If ...

In contrast, if all you do on your laptop is light, browser-based work like reading news, answering emails, and streaming TV shows, or you only handle small files like text documents that don’t need ...