One of the best upgrades that I made to my laptop was increasing the memory and investing in a flash drive for additional backup. I originally started out with a 8 MB flash drive and now have a 4 GB drive. It is amazing to think that this very small thumb drive has more memory than my first few PCs had. I have gotten flash drives for other family members so that I can give them the most recent pictures of the kids and this way is much more convenient than giving them a CD. Most of the flash drives today can be easily installed on laptops and PCs and have great security features in the event that you loose your drive.