Most of our work involves upgrading and renewing computers.  People love their computers and don’t want them to end up in landfill.  We can easily upgrade computers to give them several more years of productive use on vintage computers.  We do this by upgrading the RAM (short-term memory) and switching out your HDD (hard disk drive long-term storage) with an SSD (solid state drive long-term storage).  By switching from a HDD to SSD you can expect a four times speed upgrade in reading and writing of data to your long-term storage drive.  By increasing the RAM the operating system will not require “swapping” from the short-term memory using some long-term memory (which is slower) temporarily in place of the SSD alone.  This technique is used when there isn’t enough RAM memory to fulfil the needs of the software applications loaded and running on the computer.  This is not preferable at all and makes for an especially long time loading programs, actually it is a large problem on older computers.  We can solve that problem.  We can make that problem disappear.  How much memory in terms of short-term RAM memory differs from computer to computer as to how far upgrades can go.  But our go-to solution is just to max it out as much as possible.  Some clients are on a fixed budget and others able to afford significant upgrades to their systems.  For those with less finances we install 512G SSD drives on their systems and for those who want prime systems the preferred option is a 1T or 2T SSD drive.  The preference is the TimeTec brand as they are backwards compatible.  This means that if your system only supports a slower speed then the SSD will still work on it.  If you have an older computer with older specs the TimeTec drives will work just fine.  It is one less problem to deal with if the drives are basically universal, that solution is provided by TimeTec and it is appreciated.

After your SSD and RAM are upgraded we often add an anti-virus in there for good measure.  On legacy systems we almost always go for a Webroot Anti-virus.  The malware signatures are updated regularly and Webroot is known to have an very small resource footprint, meaning that it takes very little CPU and RAM usage, being very optimised.