In this How to guide we show how you can, in almost all cases, easily upgrade your old laptop's creaky old hard disk drive (HDD) with a lightning fast, state-of-the-art solid state drive (SSD ...

A computer with a built-in solid-state drive (SSD) will give you faster startup speeds, slicker data-writing when copying files, and a snappier process for opening and swapping between programs, ...

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.

The teardown of the AIO desktop revealed that the SSD and HDD are replaceable, but the GPU, RAM, and CPU are all soldered to the logic board.

From the boot chime to desktop is about 25 seconds tops. I did upgrade from 4gb to 8gb earlier this year so with the SSD I finally have a Mac that runs respectably well for my needs anyway.

How to Replace a Hard Drive in a Compaq Presario Desktop. 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 ...