Upgrading laptop RAM and backing up a hard drive

[@viejo2a]

Geek time is time well spent. Sometimes. This was a great insight to the guts of a laptop, Tinman. I’ve never had one, but often did similar upgrades to my Mac towers of old. 🤛🏻💻🇺🇸

[@TinManReloading]

Thanks, Walter! Yeah, sometimes things don’t go smoothly at all and the best solution is a shotgun slug 😂 My grandpa taught me to build computers in my early teen years and I still remember a good bit of it.

[@papasplace2]

Man you got all the cool toys!!!!!!!!!! A drive duplicator/cloner... I didn't even know they existed!

[@TinManReloading]

I didn’t either until Pat (Westcovinadodge) told me to pick one up for a job I did for my sister. It’s really handy! Thanks, Les 👍🏻

[@robertpowell2746]

I'm impressed Tin man!😊

[@TinManReloading]

Well thanks, Robert! I have my grandpa to thank for teaching me about computers. Thanks for stopping by 👍🏻

[@georgemoomaw9437]

Interesting video. Thank you. I must say, listening to what I believe was your furnace in the background for a few moments was a heck of a lot better than the obnoxious, head banging music some tubers feel obliged to make us endure through their entire video. Thanks for that too. Now if anyone is taking a class in writing and you need an example of a run on sentence, feel free to use the one above.

[@TinManReloading]

😂 Thank you! It’s always annoying when you’re trying to listen to someone explain what they’re doing but the silly music drowns it out. I try not to do that. And run on sentences are okay on the internet. I’m a tinner, not an English major 😂

[@reloader7sixtwo]

I was lucky that my old Gateway laptop that I still use had access panels to get to the memory and HD. Made it much easier to upgrade everything without taking the entire back off. I use a program on my Linux boxes called TimeShift by TeeJee Tech that is a standard installed application on most Linux OS that backs up the entire system or whatever parts you choose as a snapshot on an hourly, daily, weekly or monthly basis to a secondary internal or external USB drive. If for some reason, your system ever crashes due to a HD or SSD or software issue you can boot from a live USB of the OS pull up one of the backup file and reinstall the system just like nothing ever happened.

[@TinManReloading]

I’ve seen them with the access panels and that is really nice. I don’t know a lot about Linux, but that sounds like an awesome setup for not losing your stuff. I’ll look into that! Thanks, 762 👍🏻

[@reloader7sixtwo]

@@TinManReloading I would recommend Linux Mint Cinnamon edition 21.3 You can download the ISO file and burn it to a USB drive and boot up a live version to play around with without installing anything.

[@tims6212]

Wow, I found myself thinking they make a tool for that. Also "you can still do that!" You make it look so easy. I remember updating my old PC from win 3,0 to win 95. Yeah back then new hard drives and CD-ROMS and sticks of ram was just as easy. But I quit doing that when laptops came out. Looks good to go and just as easy as it used to be. Thanks for sharing.

[@TinManReloading]

Yeah, I haven’t done a whole lot with laptops, but like you I’ve done it all a bunch of times on desktops in my younger years. Same stuff, smaller package 😂 Thanks, Tim!

[@tommeboy3334]

so i now know who to bring my computer to to get fixed!

[@TinManReloading]

I usually get phone calls from people 😂 If I can help, I will! Thanks, Tomme 👍🏻

[@jamespollard1670]

That's out of my comfort zone.

[@TinManReloading]

Eh, it’s just like working on cars nowadays. Everything has its own sub-system and its purpose. Not a whole lot to it. You could handle it. If not, your kids sure could!

[@ocean374]

Hi tinman great video that’s a fancy copy dock i always used a linux os to copy a drive to new drive thanks for sharing

[@TinManReloading]

Hey Julio! Good to hear from you! Yes, Pat recommended that to me back when I was helping my sister work on her dinosaur computer. It’s really nice to have. I need to do a Linux copy of one of her bad drives here soon! Hope you’re doing well and thanks for the comment 👍🏻👍🏻

[@westcovinadodge]

nice job, I would have broken a clip and stripped a screw.

[@TinManReloading]

I was waiting for a clip to snap 😂 I owe you big time for the tip on the duplicator! Thanks Pat

[@cw2a]

Hello Man!

[@TinManReloading]

Hey, CW!!! Hope you’re doing well.

[@WilliamCChapin]

Hey…shouldn’t you be working on the chicken coop rather than fooling around with that disk drive toaster? 🐓

[@TinManReloading]

I ain’t doing nothing outside right now with the cold and snow 😂 Toasters are warm! I’m sure the ladies are ready to go outside. They tell you that in the background of this vid 😂😂

[@MeasureInGrains]

BENCHMARKS

[@TinManReloading]

No clue how to do that. I’m a n00b.