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    Momory upgrade helps?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by simon885, Mar 8, 2005.

  1. simon885

    simon885 Newbie

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    Currently I bought a dell 700m laptop,
    1.8Ghz
    512 DDR 2 Dimm
    I use it for programmming and some games playing.

    I am trying to install a 1GB Memory PC2700 stick, make it 1.25GB in total. Will that actually boost up my laptop performance? I heard from my friends that it actually won't make any significant improvement on the speed.

    Should I updgrade?

    thanx
     
    simon885, Mar 8, 2005
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    coriolis Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    the 1256mb ram will help(not sure by how much) I believe, it will be faster as well you will get a bit more from your battery.

     
    coriolis, Mar 8, 2005
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    simon885 Newbie

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    ok..thanx so much.
    I am getting
    SODIMM KINGMX 1GB DDR333 MSAD42D-KI for $163.51.
    Is it a good deal or Is anywhere having a better price?
     
    simon885, Mar 8, 2005
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  4. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    Upgrading the hard drive will help as well.






    I know things, things that could get me killed


    Thinkpad T41:
    * 1.6Ghz Pentium M * 768Mb Memory * 40Gb Hitachi 7200RPM * Panasonic UJ-845-B DVD+RW *
     
    ZaZ, Mar 9, 2005
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    SoloMio Notebook Enthusiast

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    When you say that "upgrading your hard drive will help as well" what do you mean? Do you mean having a bigger hard drive or having a faster hard drive?

    Looking at the specs on the 7200rpm versus the 4200rpm hard drives I see that the faster drives also use more power than the slower drives.

    If the memory helps prolong battery life, I would think that has to do with the computer using the hard drive less but I'm very curious of what you meant.

    Thanks,

    Joe
     
    SoloMio, Mar 13, 2005
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  6. ZaZ

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    The extra power consumption on a 7200RPM drive is very small. I have one in my ThinkPad. It seems the same to me, maybe a few minutes. A computer with a faster hard drive will boot faster, applications will not lag when opening them. If you do have to use the swap file that will be faster. Basically anything where you use the hard drive the 7200RPM drive will be faster. People often only think of the CPU when determining the speed. The speed is dependent on many things. The CPU, the amount and speed of memory, hard drive speed, chipset, etc. Here is a good article if you want to look:

    http://www6.tomshardware.com/mobile/20041213/notebook_hd-04.html





    I know things, things that could get me killed


    Thinkpad T41:
    * 1.6Ghz Pentium M * 768Mb Memory * 40Gb Hitachi 7200RPM * Panasonic UJ-845-B DVD+RW *
     
    ZaZ, Mar 13, 2005
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