There are few ways to make a laptop faster that are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD).

So to that end I would like to replace the (I am guessing) 5400 RPM HDD with a SSD and watch it speed up considerably. I don't know where to start with this.

It boots & works fine, but the basic computer is so slow to begin with that it's hard to detect much of a speedup with the SSD. This particular computer won't run anything later than 10.4 and ...

Depending on the model, a Compaq Presario might use a SATA hard drive or an IDE drive. The former is found in most models released after 2003, and the latter in earlier PCs.

I ripped out the old hard drive and replaced it with an SSD (solid state drive). This absolutely changed everything. My computer is now blazing fast with a solid-state drive and 16GB of RAM.

How to Replace a Hard Drive in an Asus Computer. Most small businesses today rely on computers for a wide variety of tasks ranging from billing and accounting to maintaining inventory, email ...

Now on the M11X R3 the hard drive connects to the motherboard via a right-angled connector (not all systems will have this), so in order to install our fast, new SSD we need to harvest that connector.