Emachines Netbook memory capacity?

I have purchased an Emachines 350-21G25lkk netbook and I am looking to upgrade the ram. PC Wizard says Max Module size is 4096MB but I am looking to confirm this before I purchase the module as they are obviously considerably more expensive that 2GB modules.

I cant find any info using google about this netbook - can anyone advise?

Thanks

 

Are you sure that is the correct model? Crucial is showing the eMachines 350-2074 series has 1 DIMM slot, maximum 2 GB DDR2 667/800.

 

I dont think Intel Atom netbooks supports more than 2gb per memory slot, and you need the newer Pineview ones (Atom N450 or newer) for it to support Windows x64 to even utilize 4gb of ram.

 

I didnt think even the newer atoms supported 4Gb ram my compaq cq10 netbook has the atom N455 and im pretty sure it only supports 2Gb

 

This is my state of info too - Atom support up to 2GB only. My netbook came with 1 and I upgraded to 2. But even if it would support 4 - I wouldn't upgrade more. 4GB DDR2 stick is quite expensive and not really worth it for a netbook.

 

Bottleneck isn't even the RAM, it's the Atom chip. It's weaker than Pentium M.

 

Depends on what you are doing! I definitely felt speed increase after upgrading to 2GB so 1GB RAM is in fact more or less a bottleneck, especially for multitasking.

 

If you bought a netbook for multitasking you bought the wrong computer.

 

No - I actually bought it for single-tasking so to say, however found out that it is able to do much more than just that!

I have done some quite serious work with it , completed a whole project involving lots of Wireshark and QXDM work entirely with it. That was also the moment I realized that upgrading to 2GB makes a lot of sense

Don't underestimate netbooks Just an advise from my own experience
But yes - you can't compare it to a real up-to-date notebook, this is true as well.

 

Looks like the EMachine 350 comes with an Atom N450 which supports maximum of 2GB.

 

2Gb of ram makes a huge difference to performance on netbooks running windows 7 as 1gb is nowhere near enough. I havent upgraded my netbook yet but i got rid of 7 off mine and dual boot xp and ubuntu 10.10 and both of those run fine on 1gb of ram and i doubt i would see a difference with 2gb

 

Well I guess it all depends.

I can tell you my ASUS 900HA was terrible. Couldn't do anything Flash heavy, and even doing Word or Excel was slow with 2 GB RAM. For me adding 2 GB RAM did not help at all.

 

definately the right model number.

this netbook has the atom n450 so im probably more confused now! lol. i opened it up and it certainly looks to be 1 slot for ram, but i just dont know what the max module capability is now.

 

Well worst case scenario, you buy a 1 x 4 GB stick and it doesn't work you return it. If it works then you got 4 GB RAM.

 

2GB. Mine is also with N450 - officially supports up to 2GB. But have you looked at the price of a 4GB stick DDR2 ? I think this will convince you to stick with 2GB anyway

Tsunade_Hime - working with heavy Excel tables on it on daily basis - not as fast as my vaio, that's for sure, but absolutely ok

 

N450 will support maximum 2GB, period. Windows 7 runs sluggish with 1GB. But 2GB runs great. I can't recall any instance of an Atom netbook accepting more than 2GB and more than one stick of memory at that.

My netbook can manage everything my laptop can for my basic daily tasks like email, web, Office (Word, Excel primarily), basic photo edits / crops if needed. Albeit a bit slower but it gets the job done.