Upgrade a Dell Inspiron 640m, or not
Hey everyone,
As the title says, I have a Dell Inspiron 640m and it's been rather slow lately. It's been slow at loading any kind of program (firefox, msn, word, etc). At first I thought it was a dusty fan, so I cleaned it out but that didn't really do a whole lot. I also use Photoshop which of course was pretty laggy, but using a laptop fan helped a LOT with the lag. The fan doesn't solve the slowness I first described, though. One thing that also bugs me is that I'll be typing something and the computer will freeze for a second before it continues spelling out what I typed.
Here are the specs of my laptop:
- 3 years old in December
- Intel Core 2 Duo processor T5600 @ 1.83 GHz (can't upgrade)
- 1 GB ram (max 2 GB)
- 120 GB Harddrive, 83.8 GB free (max size is 160 GB, but I don't want to pay $90 for an extra 40 GB)
- Windows XP Pro SP3
additional info - I reformatted my laptop back in May, and I defrag regularly.
So, since I'd like this laptop to last the remaining 1.5 years of my degree, my question is: is it worth the upgrade from 1 GB to 2 GB? Will that actually do anything to speed things up a bit?
As the title says, I have a Dell Inspiron 640m and it's been rather slow lately. It's been slow at loading any kind of program (firefox, msn, word, etc). At first I thought it was a dusty fan, so I cleaned it out but that didn't really do a whole lot. I also use Photoshop which of course was pretty laggy, but using a laptop fan helped a LOT with the lag. The fan doesn't solve the slowness I first described, though. One thing that also bugs me is that I'll be typing something and the computer will freeze for a second before it continues spelling out what I typed.
Here are the specs of my laptop:
- 3 years old in December
- Intel Core 2 Duo processor T5600 @ 1.83 GHz (can't upgrade)
- 1 GB ram (max 2 GB)
- 120 GB Harddrive, 83.8 GB free (max size is 160 GB, but I don't want to pay $90 for an extra 40 GB)
- Windows XP Pro SP3
additional info - I reformatted my laptop back in May, and I defrag regularly.
So, since I'd like this laptop to last the remaining 1.5 years of my degree, my question is: is it worth the upgrade from 1 GB to 2 GB? Will that actually do anything to speed things up a bit?