How much RAM do you have in your laptop?

1GB all i need but before i upgrade to vista im gonna get two

 

wow chaz lucky u
i bet your itching for it to arrive
the deal seems sweet but shipping to dubai....im not that sure

i cant actuallycant beleive the price difference either i had checkked for *1Gb rams @ 667mhz here in Dubai and it would cost me 232$ which is quite pathetic
as compared to the prices elsewhere

 

currently have 2GB right now but will upgrade when the prices of the 2GB ram with heat spreaders go down

 

I can't wait; unfortunately for me Lenovo is taking their good old time.

The heat spreaders don't matter for notebook RAM as far as I know, so don't waste your time with them.

 

Haha all good things take time chaz
or as i luv to say patience yeilds sweet fruits LOL
the X61 is a great lappy wot u gonna do to ur sager after its arrived ?

 

2GB here and no planning to upgrade in the near future. I found in Vista, i seldom use 100% of the capacity. My main use of the NB is office 2007 (excel and outlook at the most), firefox, DVDs and light photo touch.

 

I currently have 1Gb but this weekend I will be upgrading to 2Gb but I am trying to decide if I should go with 533mhz cas 4 for 667mhz cas 5. The 533mhz is currently the cheaper of the two and I know the higher cas of the 667mhz ram offsets it speed increase.

 

Currently have 1GB in my FE, but my new laptop will most likely have 2GB. Nothing more and nothing less. My 6 year old desktop has 512MB.

 

yeah. 1GB is running low for me. playing FEAR laggs during gameplay because the HDD seams to be read the whole time in XP. have to lower settings for it to run better.
or close all background programs...

i need to upgrade to 2GB. 2 GB will surely do for me.

BTW, what happens if you run at 2 GB and disable or/and lower virtual memory to max 10MB? can anyone try this? and what would happen if you play games that way..? it should lower hdd activity, right?

 

Just two GB for now. I'm not sure an E1705 would recognize and use 4GB on my pre-meron model. I noticed improvements in Photoshop and some gaming after going from 1 to 2 GB. If the price and means were available I would love a 100 GB of ram. Ram disks are a kick if you can afford it. 1 meg ram disks were awesome in my old 512>2MEG "monster" Mac of 1986.

 

laptop: 2GB DDR2
Desktop: 2GB DDR2

I actually use the ram though! How else could I run 5 servers and play bf2142 all on the same PC without 2gb minimum?

 

2GB is enought until I buy another notebook next year. I sell my notebook every year (while it is still worth something) and get a new one.

 

2GB for laptop
2 GB for desktop
That is enough for now (or at least until SP1 for Vista appears).

 

2GB for Desktop - MCE2005 - will do a complete upgrade next year, mobo, cpu, RAM to 4GB, gfx cards and PSU.

2GB for laptop (2GB max supported) which is already an overkill for what I do with it.

 

i have 256 mb of ram on my Compaq presario =( (ddr1)

 

Just how old is that notebook? I'm guessing 4-5 years old.

 

Odd.. becuase I got it in early 2006 at a rental place and finished paying it off 3 months back (a total of $2,000 cuz of interest ) but this is the model: Compaq Presario M2301NR

and im actually stuck with this for Photoshop, Illustrator, and other software for college lol.. its very slow

 

Man, you were ripped off by that rental place , you could've brought at least 3 such laptops with $2000.

 

Thery ripped you off

 

2GB, though I rarely use more than 950+ MB.

 

Ripped off is an understatement!

NEVER, never, ever buy anything from a rental place!!! First, that notebook is at least 3-4 years old, second it would be a very USED notebook too.

 

yeah it was a real bad mistake.. I knew nothing about laptop specs at the time or their values. Now I've learned quite a bit from the things I read on this board.. and now im just looking forward on getting one of the newer notebooks this year, well hopefully..

 

Yay! I finally upgraded to 2gigs. FEels terrific!

 

Late to the party, but 1.5GB currently.

 

Running 3GB on my latest laptop.

 

I put 4GB into my notebook and realised that no 945 chipset notebooks I know of actually have full 4GB support, so I'm stuck at 3.4GB even with a 64-bit OS and C2D (BIOS reports 4GB).

 

Hey guys, just joined the forums, and loving it, mine's sittin at 2GB with very few plans to upgrade any time this year

 

Wecome to the forum... who needs to upgrade more when you have 2GB memory

 

I've got 1GB(512MBx2) 533MHz DDR2 RAM for my laptop. I'd like to upgrade to 2GB but don't have the cash to do so, and I'm not sure if I should just wait till I get my next laptop(a long way off unfortunatly) to get 2GB. 4GB is probably unnecessary but it would be something to brag about.

 

I have 2GB DDR 2.

I see no point in going with any more at this time.

 

2.5GBs. Couldnt help myself with the low ram prices.

 

Yesterday I got my ThinkPad and I installed the 4GB of RAM I bought for it, so now I can officially say I have 4GB of RAM in my laptop (even though Vista 32-bit only shows 3062MB ).

 

Strange. My 3GB is showing up in Vista as 3070MB. It seems you lost 8MBs somewhere Chaz. lol

 

2x2gb but only 3~ gb of it are useable :'(

I think the very max 945g will let me have is 3.25gb so lets hope thats what I can get when I set everything up.

 

I seems to be going with the majority at a lovely 2GB.

 

2gb is great, esp for a notebook.

Id only really go for more with vista or a high end desktop.

 

4GB DDR 667 on Dell M1210 but showing only 3325MB on Vista x86.

It runs smoother and Ive tweaked the OS so it runs in memory. Apparently it does- does anyone know a way to check? RAM usage seems same as before!

 

One of my 2GB RAM modules failed on me so now I'm running "only" 2GB until I get the other one replaced under warranty.

 

i currently have a old laptops with 512mb of ram. i am a pretty dedicated gamer and i was wondering is it nessisary to get load of ram. i am look to get a laptops with 2 gb but should i push it up to 3 or even 4 gb? by the way i am looking to get the Asus G1S gaming laptop

 

1.5 Gb (512 Mb and 1 Gb modules), and oddly enough, CPU-Z says it's running in dual channel mode?

The extra 1 Gb I put a few weeks ago gave me a highly noticable performance increase, especially when playing games.

 

Chaz, any noticeable degradation in performance going back down to 2gb's from 4?

What brand of ram did you purchase again? Was it the OCZ from frys.com?

 

I haven't noticed any performance difference actually. I wasn't using 2GB of memory when I had 4GB (Vista only shows 3062MB in my system) so I guess that is why. Usually I hover around 1.2 - 1.6GB memory usage. Vista seems to use less memory when I only have 2GB in. It is sticking around 1.2GB now. When I had 4GB installed I was using another ~400MB or so. But like I said, I haven't noticed any performance decrease.

In other news I sent my RMA form to Super Talent today via email and I'll keep you guys updated . . .

Your chipset has a feature called asynchronous dual-channel which allows the memory to run in dual-channel mode even if the RAM sticks aren't matching. Asynchronous dual-channel doesn't provide the performance boost of dual-channel though. Dual-channel doesn't do much for the Core 2 Duo in notebooks anyway it seems.

 

1.5GB DDR2-533 on the Toshiba, 1GB DDR-333 on the Mitac.

 

1gb for now. I'm about to get 2gb but the fact that I can run 4gb makes me want to shoot for 4, even though I'd never be able to take advantage of it on a laptop.

 

2gb fitted here, i noticed quite a difference going from 1gb

Ninja

 

Just FYI, I'm not using a Core 2 Duo. XD

BTW, just a question. The asynchronous dual-channel mode doesn't offer the performance increase of dual channel, or it doesn't offer AS MUCH performance increase dual-channel mode gives.

 

Well, decided to take the plunge and bought another Patriot 2gb density stick from frys.com seeing as how the 2gb density PC2-5300 SODIMM stick prices are on the rise. I originally entered the poll at 2.5GB's; you can now put me down for 4Gb's.

 

It doesn't offer as much of a performance increase. There is still a performance increase.

My RMA request got approved so I'll be sending the stick in tomorrow to get replaced. Hopefully this won't take too long.

 

Great post, make it a sticky, please, could help all. Not joking not being funny, any thing that goes this long (many more) needs to get ahead of the pack!

 

I have 2gb.

Although 3gb would be really nice for Vista..