Trace gives us a detail look at how to replace the RAM and HDD in your laptop for better performance. If you're running an older laptop that's starting to feel a bit long in the tooth, it may be time ...

Even if it's silver or blue on the outside, to most folks, a laptop PC looks like an impenetrable black box on the inside—you wouldn't dream of cracking it open. Some notebooks, indeed, do their best ...

There are many, many cases where a computer that's "moving slow" or running "so crash-y" can work perfectly fine again with a boost in its available RAM, or memory. Because, honestly, the processor ...

Has your laptop become agonisingly slow? Do you swear it used to be faster? What if you upgraded it instead of replacing it? Craig was sucked into the endless vortex of tech at an early age, only to ...

For a lot of people, the difference between a “dead” laptop and a perfectly usable one comes down to a single decision: whether to wipe it clean and start again. A careful reset, paired with a few ...

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Full disclosure: I have never built my own PC, though I have considered it many times. A general unfamiliarity with how the computational sausage gets made and the high price of staying up to date on ...

Solid-state drives are all the rage. Since SSDs have no moving parts, they’re more rugged and shock-resistant than standard hard drives–which makes them perfect for laptops that get bumped around a ...

Who doesn’t want better graphics quality from their notebook PC? You can get there by doing it yourself. But be warned: If the upgrade is possible at all for your ...

Built around a right-to-repair philosophy, the 13.5-inch Framework Laptop can swap out its main board, battery or even keyboard and ports. Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming ...

Framework, the biggest player in the modular laptop space right now, took its time to actually get modular gaming parts, and ...