Help Riderz13371 Buy a Laptop!!!

[mysticwolf]

riderz13371 said:

Pemalite said:

Alright. Hard Drives are essentially a magnetic disc inside of a metal enclosure with a fixed amount of rotational speed.
Essentially it takes more time for a 5400rpm drive to rotate the disc to access data than a 7200rpm drive.
Higher the rpm, the better generally.
rpm = Rotations Per Minuit.

5400rpm drives are plain horrible and can leave you frustrated waiting for things to load, unfortunately in the laptop world 5400rpm drives are pretty much in every Laptop and is the sole reason why they feel slow.
But, they are cheap. :)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136835 Out of stock lol

Or a Hybrid (5400rpm+Flash memory.)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178340

Worst thing though is plonking down a massive wad of cash for a new system, loading it up with a few programs and then realizing it doesn't feel any faster than your old machine. :P
With the old drive, whack it into an external hard drive enclosure for backups. :)

Thanks a lot for your help. Your gaming pc specs in your signature sound beast! I don't know what most of it means but it seems amazing to me!

This is the one I have
Having a 7200 RPM Hard Drive will make your computer noticably faster, and you'd be glad you got it. For a laptop you probably wouldn't want to go over 7200, otherwise you could run into overheating problems

But either way, I think It's pretty simple to change the hard drive on a laptop, there are instructions all over the internet.