I have run out of memory, can I expand or should I upgrade?

Sublime_2

sara34 wrote: »

I wondered weather it was possible to upgrade this one, thank you, it is worth considering. I suppose it is whether I need Windows 7 or not.

You said your hard drive was full though, so wouldn't you need a bigger one?

sara34

Sublime wrote: »

For a notebook its fine. Do a shop around on the net, and compare prices. Perhaps you could try Dell, excellent customer support for those who need it, and they usually have some good deals on.

eek.. is notebook different to laptop? sorry :-( I thought notebook was laptop and the netbooks were the smaller ones? I'd want the bigger one as I word process my assignments, and think the netbooks would be too small for me as I like to touch type.

sara34

Sublime wrote: »

You said your hard drive was full though, so wouldn't you need a bigger one?

yes it is full! I have just over 1gb left! From what they said, I could expand the hard drive to 500gb?

John_Gray

sara34 wrote: »

I am not very techie, but the 110gb hard drive is full...

In which case you want to find out what is filling up your hard disk, and whether you can remove any of it!

I suggest you download, install and run TreeSize Free, and sort the results in descending order of size. Post information about the folders with the highest amount of space used (probably ignoring C:\Windows!), and lots of people will hasten to suggest those you can remove, thus improving the amount of free disk space.

Derivative

Try and have a look through at what's on your computer. Photos I would be very surprised if you had more than 1GB, Windows and Office should be around 10-20 max, with your music that puts you at around 50-60GB.

Plenty of room left. There are tools to check, but what I do is simply go into My Computer and the main hard drive, and right click -> properties on each folder to see the sizes of each. You can then go in and check anything that's overly large.

JamesN

sara34 wrote: »

eek.. is notebook different to laptop? sorry :-( I thought notebook was laptop and the netbooks were the smaller ones? I'd want the bigger one as I word process my assignments, and think the netbooks would be too small for me as I like to touch type.

No you're right, a notebook is a laptop, a netbook is the smaller version.

As for the OP, it depends how flush you are with the cash, £400 would get you a lot. But I doubt you'd need to spend more than £100 to upgrade ur current laptop, although it might be more as you'd need to get someone to fit the parts for you.

Windows 7 is nice and works well, but do you need it? Xp is a good stable operating system, it's just that windows 7 is more functional and looks a lot nicer. As a student you can probably buy windows 7 for around £40.

closed

tidy up what you have with ccleaner and windirstat, or buy a new hard disk for around £35

Itunes = 40GB, XP = 3GB, so where did the other 70GB go?

If any of this information is important, it will need backing up too

Hammyman

Sublime wrote: »

You could get a very decent laptop for £300 to £400. No need to spend that much unless you really want to.

I thought this was Moneysavingexpert.com, not letsgoblowafewhundredquidfornoreason.com.

A 320GB hard drive is around £30 - https://www.scan.co.uk

sara34

John_Gray wrote: »

In which case you want to find out what is filling up your hard disk, and whether you can remove any of it!

I suggest you download, install and run TreeSize Free, and sort the results in descending order of size. Post information about the folders with the highest amount of space used (probably ignoring C:\Windows!), and lots of people will hasten to suggest those you can remove, thus improving the amount of free disk space.

Forgive my ignorance! I have run TreeSize Free, if I copy the results, it wont be possible for people to access the documents will it?

sara34

oh thank you all for your advice! I have just found 30gb of space! I thought I had cleaned up my disc ect, but i just found a folder of games for my daughter! Thank you all! may well still upgrade hard drive and ram though! thank all again :-)