Laptop Upgrade Melbourne — SSD, RAM, MacBook Storage

A laptop upgrade is often the best value thing you can do for an older machine. A $149 SSD upgrade on a 5-year-old laptop with an HDD can make it feel genuinely fast again — dramatically faster boot times, application launches, and file operations. A RAM upgrade from 8GB to 16GB can transform a laptop that struggles with Chrome tabs and multiple applications into one that handles them smoothly.

Most Windows laptops from the last 8 years are upgradeable: the storage drive and RAM are user-accessible with the right tools. Gaming laptops often have multiple SSD slots and RAM channels. Even ultrabooks — often assumed to be upgrade-resistant — may have accessible NVMe slots.

MacBook upgrades are different: M-chip MacBooks (M1, M2, M3, M4) have storage and RAM soldered to the logic board. What we offer instead is Thunderbolt 4 NVMe storage expansion — fast enough to use as the primary working volume — and we can also upgrade Intel MacBook SSDs on models where the drive is on a removable blade.

At STS Roxburgh Park, we assess your laptop's upgrade potential and recommend the combination that gives you the most performance improvement for your budget.

SSD upgrade service replaces your existing storage drive with a faster NVMe SSD. If your laptop has a spinning HDD (the kind with moving mechanical parts — you can hear it during heavy use), replacing it with an NVMe SSD is transformative. Modern NVMe drives read at 3,000–7,000MB/s vs an HDD's 100–150MB/s — a 30–50× speed difference that every operation benefits from.

We clone your existing drive to the new SSD before removing the old one. Your Windows installation, applications, files, and settings all transfer across exactly. The laptop boots up to your desktop as if nothing changed — except it's dramatically faster. We test and verify the clone before delivering the laptop. SSD upgrade including drive and installation from $149.

RAM upgrade adds memory to improve multitasking. If your laptop has 8GB RAM and slows down when running several browser tabs, a video call, and an application simultaneously, 16GB resolves the bottleneck completely. Most Windows laptops with soldered RAM are 8GB or 16GB; models with SO-DIMM RAM slots can be upgraded. We check your laptop's upgrade path before quoting. RAM upgrade from $89 (including RAM and installation).

Thermal paste replacement is the performance upgrade most people don't think of. After 3–5 years, the thermal paste between the CPU and heatsink dries out — the CPU can no longer cool efficiently, causing thermal throttling that reduces performance under load. Gaming laptops and high-performance Windows machines benefit especially from this. Thermal paste replacement from $79, combined with a fan and heatsink clean.

Gaming laptop upgrades often include SSD additions (many gaming laptops have a second NVMe slot), RAM upgrades from 16GB to 32GB, and thermal compound replacement. Gaming laptops throttle significantly when thermal compound degrades — a $79 retherm can restore 10–20% CPU/GPU performance in thermal-limited scenarios.

Our workshop is at Shop G69, 250 Somerton Road, Roxburgh Park. Open 7 days, 9am–5pm.

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Walk in any time — no appointment needed. Free assessment to determine what upgrades are possible on your laptop. 6-month warranty. (03) 8339 0014 · Shop G69, 250 Somerton Rd, Roxburgh Park.