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

sara34

JamesN wrote: »

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.

Thank you, I wasn't sure if I needed to upgrade to Windows 7, but if there is no need I may stick with xp as I am more than happy with it.

closed

how to avoid the need for a ram upgrade

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2436849

sara34

closed wrote: »

how to avoid the need for a ram upgrade

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2436849

that looks great thank you! I will have to run through that lot when I have some free time.

John_Gray

sara34 wrote: »

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?

No, all you would be telling us is how much disk space is being used by the folders!

Coveredinbees!!!!

If you're happy with the laptop you have clean all the junk off the hard drive, maybe put your music on an external drive and carry on as before.

GunJack

The spec of your lappy is fine - XP pro on 1.5 gig of RAM should fairly fly with a dual-core processor. go with closed's thread on how to minimise the carp on it and it will be fine for a good while yet. Maybe £40-odd on a large external hdd to move stuff onto, and you're away