Adding more memory or storage, or swapping in a new battery or wireless card, can help squeeze a few more years out of that aging laptop. Here's how to figure out what you can upgrade, and how to do ...

The key difference between a desktop computer and a laptop computer is compactness; where a desktop has room for expandable cards and new hardware features, a laptop's hardware must fit into an ...

Even accomplished geeks shy away from motherboard upgrades on their main PCs. Years ago, I would often upgrade gaming and test systems in my own basement lab, but keep chugging along with a production ...

The motherboard is probably the most complex PC component to upgrade, but modern operating systems and standards have taken much of the pain out of swapping in a new one. (Even so, ancillary issues ...

The motherboard inside a Dell computer facilitates communication between all of the hardware installed in the PC; it sends data to and from components via electrical conductors called "traces." It ...

The buzzy Framework Laptop—designed to be fully upgradable—launched to much fanfare last year. We tried its just-released 12th Gen Core upgrade kit, swapping in a whole new mainboard and leading-edge ...

What if the next time you upgraded your laptop, the old motherboard didn’t end up gathering dust in a drawer or, worse, contributing to the growing mountain of electronic waste? Imagine transforming ...