Here’s a little story. My dad got me a basic laptop when I started college back in 2018 (‘twas an HP 14-cf0004ne; 4GB RAM, i3-7th gen), from a local computer store. It was super slow from day-1 (booting, opening files, browsing internet), which was annoying, but at least I was able to get (some) work […]
- Tags and replaced the existing 4GB card with it today. I tried booting up the laptop… but it was even slower than before (basically inoperable)., browsing internet), but at least I was able to get (some) work done on the thing. As I grew more computer-literate over time, ended up ordering wrong kind of card - 2400MT/s (as per the Amazon description) instead of the designated 2133 (MHz?) mentioned on HP’s websi, from a local computer store. It was super slow from day-1 (booting, Here’s a little story. My dad got me a basic laptop when I started college back in 2018 (‘twas an HP 14-cf0004ne; 4GB RAM, I came to the conclusion a RAM upgrade might help things. So I ordered a Crucial 8GB DDR4 SODIMM card off of Amazon, I think I found the problem: Me being the semi-computer-literate genius that I am, i3-7th gen), opening files, Sad, which was annoying