{"id":139,"date":"2018-07-25T13:29:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T07:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/?p=139"},"modified":"2018-10-02T01:16:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T19:46:26","slug":"2-steps-to-significantly-increase-laptop-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/2-steps-to-significantly-increase-laptop-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"2 upgrades to significantly increase laptop performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Upgrade 1: Replace your Hard Drive (HDD) with a Solid-State Drive (SSD)<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">What is a Hard Drive (HDD)?<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If your laptop takes ages to start up and load programs and apps, it\u2019s probably got a regular hard drive. \u00a0A regular hard drive has a \u201cdisk\u201d which rotates at a speed of between 4200-7200 rpm. A hard drive works like an old fashioned record player. A disk rotates and an arm with a head moves around the width of the disk to read and write data. This is an age old mechanical method which generates noise and heat. This type of drive is slow, but it is much more cost effective and hence we see most laptops with this type of hard drive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Advantages \u2013 Cheap<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Disadvantages \u2013 Slow, generates heat and noise, failure due to shock<\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">What is a Solid-State Drive (SSD)?<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A solid-state drive is a storage device like a regular hard drive. It gets its name from the fact that there are no moving parts and hence the drive is \u201csolid-state\u201d. Data is stored on memory chips. Since there is no disk and arm, data can be accessed virtually instantaneously, making them much faster. The prices of SSDs have come down significantly and they are now very affordable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Advantages \u2013 Speed, low weight, longer lifespan, low failure rates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Disadvantages \u2013 Price is comparatively higher for the same capacity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-140 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ssd.jpg\" alt=\"ssd\" width=\"420\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ssd.jpg 420w, https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ssd-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A hard drive (HDD) (left) and a Solid State Drive (SSD) with memory chips (right).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-in.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=IN&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=as_ss_li_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=shirazkotwall-21&amp;language=en_IN&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=IN&amp;placement=B01N6JQS8C&amp;asins=B01N6JQS8C&amp;linkId=3262c01cbc48b24df01c773db2faa796&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-in.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=IN&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=as_ss_li_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=shirazkotwall-21&amp;language=en_IN&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=IN&amp;placement=B01N5IB20Q&amp;asins=B01N5IB20Q&amp;linkId=784f690c1c81a5de4a327efdd71e542d&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-in.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=IN&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=as_ss_li_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=shirazkotwall-21&amp;language=en_IN&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=IN&amp;placement=B01N0TQPQB&amp;asins=B01N0TQPQB&amp;linkId=b9e587a8f2e486389f35ed4c4e88eb3d&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Upgrade 2: Increase Memory (RAM)<\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">What is Memory?<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Simply explained, a laptop has a processor, memory and a hard drive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Think of yourself sitting at a desk with a single filing cabinet next to you. You would be the processor; your desk would be the memory and your filing cabinet would be your hard drive. A laptop works pretty much the same way we do. You remove a file from the filing cabinet, put it on your desk and then process it. Now imagine if you had to process a lot of files and you had a very small desk, your processing speed would decrease significantly! It\u2019s very important to have a large enough desk, right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the same way, we should always ensure that we have sufficient memory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Memory is available in various sizes from 1 GB to 64 GB on a single chip. Also, memory should always be installed in pairs on a laptop for optimum performance. So, if we wanted to have a total of 8 GB we would ideally install two chips of 4 GB each. If only a single chip is installed, then we should purchase another chip of the same capacity and speed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ideally, I would recommend a minimum of 8 GB of memory.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-141\" src=\"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/laptop-ram.jpg\" alt=\"laptop ram\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/laptop-ram.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/laptop-ram-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/laptop-ram-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Laptop Memory Chips (RAM)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is your laptop going slow? <\/p>\n<p>Is it taking ages to start apps?<\/p>\n<p>Time to upgrade it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[27,28,31,35,30,32,34,29,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}