Personal computing discussed
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Nowin wrote:So my wife's laptop is getting old. It's slow and things take forever to load. She has the Gateway MX6426. It has a decent 2.2Ghz processor, but a crappy 4200 rpm 80GB Fujitsu. I was thinking that the slowness could be due to the crappy HDD. It's possible that it's another issue, RAM or whatnot. What do you guys think? Would a new $50 hard drive do the trick, or should we get a new $600-$700 laptop?