Recent content by scfonta

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    upgrade or replace?

    A couple of folks have asked whether my old machine can support 16GB. It can and I can get the chips from someone on ebay for $94 or $170 from crucial.com. I live much of the year without internet access at my home. I sit in a neighbor's driveway where I can get their internet, download...
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    upgrade or replace?

    I have a 7 (?) year old dell xps 15 L502x, 6GB RAM,i5-2430M 2 core cpu, 2.4 GHz. It is running slow when I have many (~30) tabs open. I wanted to wait until Intel had fixed meltdown and spectre in hardware before buying a new machine but not much is out with fixes yet. Should I upgrade my PC to...