so my 3-year old hp pavillion dv5's video card just died. when i turn the laptop on, the lights come on but the screen stays blank. it would cost $330 to get it repaired by hp, and as a grad student, ...

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 ...

Reader Fred wants to know if a laptop hard drive can be plugged into a desktop PC. “The pin out appears to be the same,” he notes, “but there is no separate power-supply connector.” Short answer: yes.

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 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. It’s easy to skimp on storage when you’re buying a computer. You ...

My first hard drive was just 40 MB. Back then, circa 1990, the only reason you'd upgrade a hard drive was to increase your storage space. But, today, with the recent introduction of new hard-drive ...

Addonics Announces Accessories That Allow iPod Hard Drives to Attach to Any Computer, or Convert iPod Hard Drives to Compact Flash Addonics Technologies (http://www ...

If you're upgrading the storage inside your laptop, or perhaps upgrading your laptop entirely, there's no need to send everything to the great electronics scrapheap in the sky. With basic tools, ...