Looking for notebook RAM reccomendations

[Supergumby5000 5,000+ posts]

Im wanting to upgrade the RAM in my little laptop. Its got a 1gig right now, but vista doesnt like that much.

Any brand reccomendations or model reccomendations? Im wanting to put 4 gigs in.

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[Jbowsky_62 10+ year member]

the brand really doesnt matter you need to find out how many extra ram slots your notebook has and then base your purchase on that shared ram is cheaper put not as fast

 

[Jmac 10+ year member]

I usually use Bufallo for laptops. It's dirt cheap, works great, and comes w/ a lifetime warranty. Installed it in probably about a dozen or so laptops, all worked fine.

Corsair and Kingston also work great, in my experience.

I sometimes get OCZ against my better judgement as well, usually due to cost. It's bitten me in the *** a few times, though.

And, yeah, 1 GB of Vista is no good. I'd get that up to 2 GB or more and pick up a 7200 RPM 2.5" hard drive. Should be much faster after that (assuming you're not using like a piece of shit Celeron, Sempron, or Athlon CPU, of course).

 

[Supergumby5000 5,000+ posts]

I usually use Bufallo for laptops. It's dirt cheap, works great, and comes w/ a lifetime warranty. Installed it in probably about a dozen or so laptops, all worked fine.
Corsair and Kingston also work great, in my experience.

I sometimes get OCZ against my better judgement as well, usually due to cost. It's bitten me in the *** a few times, though.

And, yeah, 1 GB of Vista is no good. I'd get that up to 2 GB or more and pick up a 7200 RPM 2.5" hard drive. Should be much faster after that (assuming you're not using like a piece of shit Celeron, Sempron, or Athlon CPU, of course).

i thought about getting a better hard drive as well, any reccomendations?

Its an intel 1.6ghz duo processor. Toshiba computer i scored for 50% off.

How can i tell what type of ram to get? looking on newegg, there are a few different types of ram sticks. Do i need to open my laptop up and physically look at it to tell, or is there another way?