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    Surprising upgrade

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Khiamal, Mar 13, 2007.

  1. Khiamal

    Khiamal Notebook Guru

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    Every website that sells memory, like Crucial, NewEgg, etc., all state that the Smartstep 250N can only be upgraded to 1 gig of memory. However, since I had the memory out of another laptop handy, I tried 2 gig, and, surprise!.... it recognized it, and runs fine, with no hickups or issues.

    If you're running some memory intensive tasks in your old lappy, or doing a lot of multi-tasking, give this a try before buying a new one.
     
    Khiamal, Mar 13, 2007
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  2. Gautam

    Gautam election 2008 NBR Reviewer

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    Wow..that's a really old notebook. I am really surprised that you were able to go beyond 1GB of ram on that machine.
     
    Gautam, Mar 13, 2007
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