On Jan 12, 2016, at 2:09 PM, Alex Whitman <aly...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is replacing the hard drive in a 5 year old laptop the best use of funds?
It all depends on what you’re using it for. For years, the PC box makers could push a three-year upgrade cycle because the shiny new boxes were a lot faster than the older ones. Even though most people don’t do much more than surfing, email and office-type stuff, the difference in speed was noticeable. That’s not true any more. Four or five years ago, processors hit 2 GHz with multiple cores and standard graphics cards became fast. For most people there isn't much practical difference between that old box and the shiny new one. My feeling is putting in a newer hard drive and maxing out RAM is a pretty good investment, unless you have a particular reason to get a new machine. If you can get another year or two out of an old machine, why not go for it? Hard drives and RAM are cheap right now. I think this is why most of the PC industry is tanking. The newer machines aren’t really much better than the older ones, so people can go a lot longer between upgrades.
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