Adding memeory to a laptop

[donuticus]

I need to buy more Ram for my laptop. Its a Toshiba Equium. I want to upgrade from 512mb to at least a gig possibly two. Is it a fairly easy thing to do and where is the best place to get memory from ? Also roughtly how much should I be looking at paying ?

[HotPhil]

It should be fairly easy to do. One good tool is the online memory configurator at Crucial's site - http://www.crucial.com/uk/. It'll tell you excatly what type you can use/have space for.

[Eric_Collins]

I need to buy more Ram for my laptop. Its a Toshiba Equium. I want to upgrade from 512mb to at least a gig possibly two. Is it a fairly easy thing to do and where is the best place to get memory from ? Also roughtly how much should I be looking at paying ?

 

adding memory to a laptop is dead easy, there's a little trap door of sorts thats held shut with one screw.I've had 5 laptops DDR & SDRAM, all different makers and all have had the door.

 

In the trap door will be 2 sticks about 2inch long.

 

I paid ?30 for 1048Mb of Genuine Dell / Kingston 333DDR Brand new from a shop on ebay.

 

A 1gb stick is a big jump in price, i beleve the costs around ?50-70 a stick for that sort of size.

 

http://computing.kelkoo.co.uk/b/a/sbs/113501/15666704.html

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[mrmist]

I second the crucial memory configurator. It should be able to tell you if your laptop can take 2 Gigs of ram. Depending on how it's configured already you may have to throw away your existing ram and buy entirely new stuff. Or you could be lucky and have one existing strip of 512 and can just get another to go with it.

 

Normally it'll be a small rectanglular slot underneath that you need to unscrew.

[Ghozer]

It has been known to be under the keyboard also..

 

you'd have to slide the thing above the keyboard, before the hinges for the screen, then the keyboard will lift up, and there's a memory slot under there..

 

this is mostly on older HP machines, on some current Compaq, and Advent

 

most of the time though it is on the bottom as people have said above

[parcher]

I bought some second hand memory off ebay and put it in myself last weekend. It is dead easy - in mine there was a sort of screw down trap door and two slots, one of which already had a stick in. You put it in (without touching any of the face of it) at 45 degrees and sort of push it in and down. A couple of grips at the side lock it into place.

 

I believe you have to check what sort of memory your computer takes and whether it takes uneven amounts of memory in each slot (mine does) or whether it has to be in pairs (like two 512MB sticks) but apart from that it is easy.