Laptop upgrades are not difficult to complete yourself, and there are three key upgrades that you can easily accomplish to make your laptop run faster. These will also give your laptop a higher resale value when you decide to replace it.
One of the most simple laptop upgrades to complete yourself is to upgrade your operating system. If you are running Windows XP or Windows Media Center, upgrading to Windows Vista is a good idea. You will be able to take advantage of the many features of Windows Vista, as well as enhance the speed of your system. An upgrade to Windows Vista for the Home Basic edition is under $100 and is worth it to enhance the efficiency of your system. (More…)

Oh, what to do? Amazon has a new rebate for the UMPC-like Sony Vaio UX180P (aka UX50). It’s a $150 rebate that puts the Sony at $1649.99. That’s getting within striking distance of the Samsung in my book. In my mind, I had rounded up and placed the UMPC and the new Vaio at almost $1k apart. The rebate breaks the mental barrier and gets the differnce down to just a few Benjamins.














