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Tips For Speeding Up a Laptop

Laptop computers are generally slower overall than desktops, unless you spend thousands of dollars on the highest-performance “desktop replacements.” Portability is lovely but speed definitely matters, too. Here are some ways to speed up your laptop.

Replacing a standard 5400 rpm hard drive with a 33 percent faster 7200 rpm drive is probably the best investment you can make in a laptop. Disk read/write operations are the biggest bottleneck in all but the cheapest, underpowered laptops. Replacing a laptop’s hard drive is much easier than the same upgrade on a desktop machine. There’s usually just one screw to remove. Then you pull of the drive bay cover; pull out the hard drive; slip in the new one; format the new drive and install all your software and data. The restoration of programs and data is easier if you made a disk image copy before removing the old drive.

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Guide to Laptop Processors

The heart of any computer is the processor or CPU for short(central processing unit). There are quite a few brands and types of CPU’s available for laptops and trying to pick the right one can be confusing.

There are laptops that use desktop versions of the Athlon XP and Pentium 4, these are good for desktop replacements where battery life is not a concern. The advantage is speed and lower cost in exchange for heat and shorter battery life. The extra speed is due in part to a faster front side bus and sometimes higher speed memory that the desktop processors support.

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Speeding Up Laptop Performance

If you normally use a laptop computer, you may not think much about its performance, but if you switch between a laptop and a desktop computer, you may find that the laptop seems like a very slow computer, indeed. I’m often asked about the performance of laptops and why they seem so slow in comparison to desktop computers. Why Laptops Can Seem So Slow

Although laptops perform the same functions and for the most part run the same software that desktop computers do, they’re actually very different machines. The laptop computer probably has a processor that is one or perhaps two revisions behind its beefier desktop cousin. In addition, the processor is “underpowered” in terms of its clock speed.

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Do you want to learn how to increase computer speed and performance easily, quickly, and without any technical mumble jumble? Okay my friend, take 2 quick minutes out of your day and read on to discover the most effective and simplest way to get a fast PC right now!

You know, my business is primarily depended upon my computers. Therefore, I need them to be running as smooth as possible in order to complete my day-to-day tasks. Well, a little while ago both my laptop and desktop computers decided to take a vacation and they both ended up running terribly slow and getting errors every time you turned around!

I thought I knew about computers pretty well. Evidently that was not the case! I tried everything known to man to increase the speed of my computers. Here is what I did:

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