Hello,
I have a Toshiba Satallite 2060 CDS with a 400Mhz AMD K6 (and Win98SE). I'm running 128megs of ram, 4gb HD (with 1 gb free) and am interested in upgrading the bios and ram for better performance. While not dead slow, I think I could make dinner while it boots up!
My wife and I are both grad students and often need to run two computers at home at the same time, but can't afford a new laptop. We use the laptop like a network terminal, storing all the important files on another computer.
1. Is there anyway to improve performance on a computer this age? (beyond cleaning out old programs and files and reducing start up items) 2. Would it be cost effective to make any of these modifications?
I am NOT interested in overclocking the old workhorse, just trying to get better performance.
Any suggestings would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Eoin
I have a Toshiba Satallite 2060 CDS with a 400Mhz AMD K6 (and Win98SE). I'm running 128megs of ram, 4gb HD (with 1 gb free) and am interested in upgrading the bios and ram for better performance. While not dead slow, I think I could make dinner while it boots up!
My wife and I are both grad students and often need to run two computers at home at the same time, but can't afford a new laptop. We use the laptop like a network terminal, storing all the important files on another computer.
1. Is there anyway to improve performance on a computer this age? (beyond cleaning out old programs and files and reducing start up items) 2. Would it be cost effective to make any of these modifications?
I am NOT interested in overclocking the old workhorse, just trying to get better performance.
Any suggestings would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Eoin