![]() Some laptops don’t even allow you to expand your storage space. This is something that happened to me when I purchased the Huawei MateBook D15 last year, which by the way is a pretty good laptop. So when you buy a laptop with 8GB of memory, that’s what you’re stuck with until you upgrade your laptop. It gets worse as some manufacturers don’t tend to advertise whether laptops have integrated memory or not, turning laptop purchasing into a bit of a lottery. Unfortunately, more and more manufacturers are choosing to integrate the memory in the motherboard making it impossible for users to upgrade without replacing the motherboard. Running virtual machines as well as programming can be heavy on your hardware, so you may want to upgrade the memory and storage space in your laptop. For example, you could have purchased a laptop to write a book, but the following year you may decide that you want to learn programming, and all of a sudden you are running a lot of virtual machines on your laptop. ![]() ![]() I mean when you own a device for a while, it’s perfectly normal for your requirements to change. When I spend a lot of money on a product, I expect it to last for a long time and when it comes to laptops, I want to be able to upgrade them should I need to in the future. But, the main reason I’m mentioning this is because laptops have significantly changed in those years.īut without any further ado, here are the problems I have with modern Windows laptops… They are less upgradable Now you’re probably wondering why on earth am I talking about Windows and my IT career, all of this will make sense later in this article. I’ve been working with Windows devices in industry for over 7 years and in that time, I’ve used and maintained several Windows-based computers and laptops. All this experience combined, helped me secure my first IT job. Windows XP and Windows 7 were my learning operating systems that not only helped me get a degree in computer science but also my first IT job.Īs someone who is passionate about computing, I started tinkering with computers from a young age and I eventually built my very first computer. The first Windows operating system I used happened to be Windows 95, which was what we used in ICT lessons at primary school. I’ve been a Windows guy for most of my life and I think it’s fair to say that I’ve watched Microsoft expand the operating system and make good decisions and bad ones. They’re not bad but… Photo by Clint Patterson on Unsplash
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