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when i next upgrade will i have to buy a new computer or can i upgrade my existing computer?

i plan to upgrade my computer but not right now as i don't have the money and live on a fixed income. my c drive is virtually full, and so is my external hard drive , i have windows xp pro , the drives are mainly filled with media, music, film etc. this is the little info i have on my computer : AMD Athlon (tm) 64X2 Dual core processor 5000+ 2.60 GHz, 2.00 GB of RAM. when i upgrade i want to get bigger RAM memory , and a bigger external harddrive to back all my media on to and word documents. i plan to stick with xp for now upon recommendation from a few people. i also would like to make sure my favourite web pages , bookmarks and browser settings on internet explorer and google chrome remain ' untouched ' - how could i do this ? also is it worth having Linux and windows 7 installed on the next upgrade ? because i cannot afford an upgrade right now , i plan to get dvds and cds to try and back my important stuff on. an answer replied to this question earlier, in the last part of the answer, he said this : '' As far as upgrading the computer you are probably maxed out on your ram already, the only way to upgrade this computer any more is to upgrade the system all together by buying a newer computer. (this would be a cheaper way to do it) '' would i need to do that ? can i not just update my custom built computer , that ive upgraded for years now ? great sir swibs thankyou.

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1. I don't see a reason to upgrade at all looking at the specs you have right now. 2GB of RAM is more than enough for a single user doing normal tasks. Unless you have to upgrade to run a really intense application (media editing for example), you should probably leave this alone. You won't see a noticable improvement in your performance by upgrading your RAM at this point. Go buy a new hard drive and install it. This is really easy to do, and is getting more and more affordable. Byte for byte, it's cheaper than buying an external hard drive. DO NOT install Linux unless you are willing to learn how to use something radically different from Windows, and be prepared to do a little work to get all of your peripherals running 100%. I have been using Linux as my everyday OS for about 8 years. It's not a drop-in replacement for Windows. Upgrading to Windows 7 is a matter of choice. It sounds like you have a perfectly fine setup that works for you presently. Whether you undergo an upgrade is up to you. There's the old saying "if it ain't broke don't fix it," but since upgrades are meant to improve and not fix, if you can safely upgrade it, you probably should.