Just a quick one for a person who knows....

I have a laptop still in warranty so can't touch it at the moment (providing the heating problem gets sorted as per other thread). It has 2Gb of DDR2 Memory running Vista Home Premium.

Is it worth adding another 1Gb to make it faster in that respect once the warranty has run out?

I do run AutoCAD on it a lot of the time too.

I did a Memory upgrades, flash media, and usb storage at Crucial.com memory scan and it came back with this..... telling me it's got no memory installed and that the max amount is already there but I always thought that the 32bit systems can have 3GB no trouble, when I check the computer it says 2Gb installed.

Is this just the website playing up or has anybody had this come back to them?

It may be more a matter of whether or not your motherboard can support more than 2gb, and if it has the physical slots to do so. I read that it's an Acer 7720G, but which version? The Travelmates seem to be limited to 2gb, but I've seen adverts for the Aspires quoting 3gb pre-installed.

The crucial website doesn't like my desktop either.:(

What it shows on yours is that you have 2 slots only so for any upgrade you will need to bin at least one of your sticks.

With memory being so cheap I would prrobably just swap both for 2Gb ones and let Vista work it out. I currently have 4Gb in my desktop running 32bit Vista and it is fine.

Ignore the crucial tester, for example it seems to like my home pc but what it reports is garbage. The tester relies on your pcs bios reporting the correct acpi information, however not all, even the big vendors implementation of acpi is correct.

The only way to really do this is to remove the cover and look at whats there already and if any slots are available. Most laptops have 2 memory slots, some have only one. If you have 2GB of ram, you may have a single stick or 2 1GB sticks. If you have 2 1GB sticks then you can replace one of these with a 2GB one, if only have one 2GB stick then there is little point in upgrading to the next step.

It may be more a matter of whether or not your motherboard can support more than 2gb, and if it has the physical slots to do so. I read that it's an Acer 7720G, but which version? The Travelmates seem to be limited to 2gb, but I've seen adverts for the Aspires quoting 3gb pre-installed.

Its an Aspire 7720G.

I'll wait til the warranty is up then pop the back off and see.

Cheers people

I personally wouldn't bother with more than 2GB for the sort of things you're going to be doing on a laptop.

The 2GB you have in there might be 2*1GB already, but also the extra RAM uses extra power so you would be reducing your battery life if that's an issue.

Unless you're running 64bit vista, then anything more than 2gb is worthless anyway.

Unless you're running 64bit vista, then anything more than 2gb is worthless anyway.

Anything over (4GB minus a bit for your PCI devices - a bit for any other memory mapped deviced and minus a bit for your graphics devices & their memory) is useless