Don’t throw away your old notebook just yet. I discovered a way out to help your old notebook work better than before. I don’t dispute that Vista is a hugely demanding operating system. Although your notebook may have a fast enough processor – 800MHz is the minimum speed required – you’re likely to be much happier if you upgrade the memory to 1GB. Vista consumes swathes of hard disk space too. And, if you want to take advantage of all those swish graphics effects, you’ll need a relatively modern graphic card.

I can help you to upgrade most parts of your notebook but there isn’t much I can do when it comes to graphics. Fortunately, however, the swish video effects isn’t the most important part of Vista. What I can do is upgrade my memory, optical drive and hard disk, plus add faster wireless, USB, FireWire and even phone capabilities. I can even replace my screen and processor too, but this is not advisable after considering the price cost.

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