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    how to upgrade my old laptop....ok really old laptop

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by shaheenarshan, Sep 17, 2006.

  1. shaheenarshan

    shaheenarshan Notebook Deity

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    i have this toshiba protege 3330 or also known as dyna book 3330 its built with a celeron processor and 32 mb of ram.....i was thinkin if i was able to upgrade my ram and increse my hdd which at the moment is 4.2gb i dont care about the processor i just want to increase the speed of the laptop its real slow i did sum research on the web but i was unable to find anything on it i ws wondering if any one here could help me out
    thnx in advance
     
    shaheenarshan, Sep 17, 2006
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    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    What would you like to know?
     
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    i would like to know if its worth upgrading my ram and hard drive and if it is how i can do it myself
     
    shaheenarshan, Sep 18, 2006
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    Ram is incredibly easy, unscrew the back cover and put new pieces in. Hard drive on the other hand, might not be as easy if you have never done it. However im not really sure how worth it it would be to do so, that processor will bottleneck everything but text.
     
    Blake, Sep 18, 2006
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    thanx for the help...guess its not worth it then i better stick to my hp thnx alot for u help
     
    shaheenarshan, Sep 19, 2006
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