Today half and more of netbook laptops, available today at stores, goes with 60 Gb 2,5-inch hard drive. These laptops works 5-7 hours on replacement laptop battery. Disk space increase, for 250+ Gb will will not be so expensive – such hard drive will cost for you $80. Besides, it is good idea to take care of additional increase RAM size for what in the most netbook laptops only one slot is provided. 1Gb memory will cost you $15 for a module and all whole expenses on the total upgrade will not be more than $100. For this money you get an opportunity to have much more pictures on your netbook computer, and also result to increase Windows productivity.
After these upgrades HP computer, for example, can be used without battery for Compaq laptop as “system unit”, having connected to it the large screen monitor, a mouse and the keyboard, – an cool choice for the regular home user. If you simply wish to increase OS productivity, will be enough only increase in size of the memory modules.
Remember that netbooks, as a rule, have no possibility to add memory modules larger than 2 Gb. Maximum total amount hosted by netbook is 4 Gb. Note that brand vendors do not allow to make on-hands upgrade of parts (excluding Lenovo laptop batteries), otherwise you can lose a guarantee.
To get access to the HDD, it is necessary to remove completely a back cover, preliminary remove some screws. For memory installation you need to insert module at 45 degrees and push it.
What to do with old HDD? The answer to this question is obvious – it is good to order special “pocket” for 2,5-inch hard drive with availability of its connection to the PC through USB slot. The most simple version will cost you of all in $10. As a result you will have an external portable hard disk storage for handling large files.
How at replacement of the hard disk not to lose the disk content? For this purpose it is enough to copy the data from the laptop to the new hard disk. Use special software utilites like Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image for it.