How do you make you laptop go superfast you ask? Well we all know that upgrading a laptop is a pretty limited affair. Most people just put more memory in their laptop and hope for the best; more is better right? How many people actually know that more isn’t always better but just cant help getting sucked in by that laptop with 4gb of ram. Well for the most of us 32bit operating systems are the norm and actually some of that ram is wasted.

I recently purchased a Packard Bell Easynote BG45-U-300 now I usually wouldn’t be seen dead buying such a brand but I paid £280 for this little beauty it has a dual core pentium (T2390@1.82GHz), 1GB of ram and a 80GB SATA HDD. It has an INTEL 965 / X1300 and 12.1” screen with a resolution of 1280×800. This machine replaced my much loved ASUS 901. In my opinion a 12.1” laptop beats a netbook anyday

One of the first things I did was upgrade the ram. I had some laying around and a few minutes later I had 3GB of memory on my laptop more than enough for my portable needs. The machine then in its current state was used for a month or 2 I could even use the laptop to play back 720p video with the correct codec’s installed. As time progressed I started to find the 80GB SATA drive a little restrictive so…..

The next upgrade I did was change the hard drive to a 320GB WD Scorpio Blue I choose to put a big disk in because I thought I would use my laptop to store my multimedia collection in another place (you can never have enough backups). I did this for a while and it worked well all of my music is ripped in WMA Lossless so it took up a lot of space!!

Then SAMSUNG did that viral marketing campaign “SAMSUNG SSD AWESOMNESS” and I had to find out what all the fuss was about I couldn’t afford 24 drives as shown in the video I could however afford 1 Samsung 64GB SSD MLC so I took the plunge.

How good are they you ask? Well in my opinion its one of the best upgrades you could make to a laptop computer not only has the SSD made this laptop superfast it boots Windows 7 in 35 seconds including the bios on the 320GB WD Scorpio it was just over a minute. It also has reduced the amount of heat that my laptop produced people who own an Easynote BG45 will know that its not the quietest of beasts but you look past it because it was cheap! Well the SSD makes the laptop noticeably cooler and the fans aren’t as noisy.

Very very soon I’m going to post some videos of a budget laptop booting with an SSD. The most amazing thing about this laptop is that all in its cost me £400 a far cry from the prices of the Mac Book Air, Dell Adamo and other ultra portables.