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01-18-2008, 04:42 AM
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RAM before anything in most cases, especially as cheap as you can find it now... good place to look is www.newegg.com... if you can go higher than one gig of ram, it's not a bad idea, just have to see how much your machine can hold... windows can't utilize more than 3 gigs of ram unless you're running 64bit windows though. I usually max out my ram first thing, will give xp room to fly, not so much with vista though
01-18-2008, 04:51 AM
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RAM before anything in most cases, especially as cheap as you can find it now... good place to look is www.newegg.com... if you can go higher than one gig of ram, it's not a bad idea, just have to see how much your machine can hold... windows can't utilize more than 3 gigs of ram unless you're running 64bit windows though. I usually max out my ram first thing, will give xp room to fly, not so much with vista though
my laptop is old max is 1gb:happysad: looking at going with another stick of 512mb Corsair
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Product Name HP Pavilion ze4315us Notebook PC
US Product Number DC958A#ABA
Microprocessor Mobile AMD Athlon XP-M Processor 1800+ (1.53 GHz) with PowerNow! Technology
Microprocessor Cache 256KB (L2)
Memory 256MB DDR SDRAM (1 x 256MB) at 266MHz;
Memory Max Maximum Memory 1024MB DDR SDRAM (2 x 512MB)
Video Graphics ATI MOBILITY RADEON; 4X AGP 3D architecture
Video Memory 64MB DDR SDRAM (dedicated)
Hard Drive 30GB enhanced-IDE hard disk drive
Diskette Drive External USB Floppy Drive available for U.S. customers via hpshopping.com or local retailers for non-U.S. customers
Multimedia Drive DVD+CD-RW Combo (CD-read 24x; CD-write 8x; CD-rewrite 8x; DVD-read 8x)
Display 15.0 inch XGA TFT (1024 x 768) display
Fax/Modem Integrated v.90/v.92 56KB modem (RJ-11 connector)
Network Card Integrated 10/100BASE-T Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector)
Wireless Connectivity n/a
Sound 16-bit Sound Blaster Pro-compatible audio; internal Altec Lansing speakers; Volume control buttons and mute button
Keyboard 88-key
Pointing Device Touch Pad with On/Off button and dedicated vertical Scroll Up/Down pad
PC Card Slots One Type I/II/III PC card slot; CardBus-enabled
External Ports Two Universal Serial Bus (USB) 1,1
One Parallel (25-pin)
One Serial
One PS/2 keyboard/mouse
One headphone-out
One microphone-in
One VGA (15-pin)
One TV-Out (S-video)
One RJ-11 (modem)
One RJ -45 (LAN)
One PCI (port replicator)
One DC-in (AC adapter)
Dimensions 12.96 inches (L) x 10.72 inches (W) x 1.62 inches (H)
Weight 7.25 lbs