Dell E6400 hard-drive&RAM requirements

Hi,
I am going to buy a Dell E6400. When I saw the high price Dell ask for a having a big hard-drive and for having a 4GB of RAM, I decided to buy them myself separately.

So my question now, what must be the characteristic of these elements in order to function properly in the Dell E6400:
- for the hard-drive: which interface is it ? Serial ATA II or Serial ATA ?
- for the RAM: which type ? DDR3 or DDR2 ?

Do you know if it is possible to buy a Dell laptop without hard-drive and without any RAM ?

Thanks for any help.

 

You should buy the minimum RAM and a HDD which gives you best value for money. Dell won't sell the computer without these because it wants to ship a working computer.

The optimum RAM (at the moment) is PC6400 DDR2 800MHz SODIMM, but PC5300 (667MHz RAM works OK - see part 2 of my E6400 review). We wait to see whether Dell moves to DDR3 RAM in the future, but the slots are different.

For the HDD you need 2.5" 9.5mm thick with SATA. It can be SATA 1 or SATA2 interface. The chipset supports both.

John