Laptop Upgrade

[Final Maxim]

my gf is on about getting a new laptop as hers is very sluggish

spec is a 1.6ghz dual core intel
1gb ram
onboard graphics
vista home

basically it takes an age to load anything up, firefox/wordpad etc.

would throwing an extra gig of ram in really do anything or is it simply down to a slow processor/lack of graphics card.

i dont really wanna spend £30 on ram to find it didnt do anything.

also, should i just buy a second identical 1gb ram and put it in or is it best to try source a cheap 2gb stick?

 

[Mike_182]

What laptop is it? Can it take 2 sticks? 2x2GB would do it wonders. 1.6GHz isn't going to set the world on fire but I've run Vista fine on worse!

 

[David]

get ram and wipe it and put windows 7 on it

 

[Gally]

1gig and 1.6ghz on vista must be shocking.

 

[Final Maxim]

What laptop is it? Can it take 2 sticks? 2x2GB would do it wonders. 1.6GHz isn't going to set the world on fire but I've run Vista fine on worse!

hp 530

just looking on the internet and its saying its a celeron 1.6ghz single core, but im sure its a dual core :S

laptop aint here to check if it can hold 2 sticks

 

[biojo]

http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/listparts.aspx?model=Business Notebook 530&pt=SSD

is that it?

2 slots
Each memory slot can hold DDR2 PC2-5300 with a maximum of 1GB per slot.*

 

[Sargara]

If the CPU is only single core then thats your problem. No amount of RAM is going to make that much impact if thats the case.

If your correct the CPU is dual core than deffinately upgrade to 2GB of RAM. Vista hogs RAM at the best of times so the more the better.