Today half and more of netbooks, available today at stores, goes with sixty Gb 2,5-inch hard disk.
These notebooks works 5-6 hours on replacement laptop battery. Disk space increase, for 250+ Gb will not strongly cost a pretty penny – such hard drive will cost for you $80. Besides, it is good to take care of additional increase memory modules size for what in the most netbook laptops only one slot is available. 1Gb memory modules will cost you $15 for a module and all summary expenses on the common upgrade will not be more than $100. For this money you get an opportunity to store much more information on your portable laptop, and also result to increase operation system speed.
After all manipulations HP laptop, for example, can be used without hp laptop batteries as “system unit”, having connected to it the TFT screen monitor, a mouse and the keyboard, – an cool choice for the regular home user. If you simply like to increase system productivity, will be enough only increase in size of the RAM.
Remember that netbook laptops, as a rule, have no possibility to add memory modules larger than 2 Gb. Maximum total amount hosted by laptop is 4 Gb. Note that brand vendors do not allow to provide on-hands upgrade of accessories (excluding battery for IBM laptops), otherwise you can lose a warranty.
To get access to the HDD, it is need to remove completely a back cover, preliminary remove some screws. For RAM upgrade you need to set up module at 45 degrees and press it.
What to do with old HDD? The answer to this question is obvious – it is not bad to buy special “pocket” for 2,5-inch hard drive with availability of its connection to the PC via USB slot. The most simple version will cost you of all in $10. As a result you will have an external portable hard drive storage for carrying large files.
How at replacement of the disk not to lose the data? For this purpose it is enough to copy the data from the laptop to the new HDD. Use some software tools like Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image for it.