About a year and a half ago I upgraded my 1 TB hard drive on my laptop to a 500G SSD, it was less than $200, and the best money I ever spent. Super-fast startup and no more moving parts, which makes the machine run cooler and with less noise. Programs open at lightning speed! It literally took 5 minutes to swap it out. My 4-year-old laptop is still competing with brand new ones with its original 16 GB ram and now the SSD, Win 10 and Office 365. My last laptop lasted me for over 10 years, before the HD failed.
I originally got this HP Pavilion at Costco for less than $700.00, and it’s been a great device, and in fact is actually my main computer at home in my office. I have a dual monitor setup, and it’s awesome. I also have a dual monitor setup at work, I don’t know how anything ever got done with one monitor back in the day.
Having the ability to have two calendars open or one calendar and then email, or a word doc on one and the library on the other well, in fact, sometimes I have my tablet on my desk with say the library app open so I can see the parts for the meeting, and then I have a word doc for writing on one of my laptop monitors and then the WT Library program open on the other. It’s crazy! Truth be told I am probably a little OCD and ADD, and I really think that all the multitasking that we do these days probably has added to that whole thing.
I know I have a problem. Lol But again I could never go back to just one monitor. That would be like going back to a black and white TV or rubbing two sticks together when I can use a propane torch.