- Aug 3, 2006
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Hey all,
Just looking for other opinions here.
I have an old Dell Inspiron E1505/6400 laptop. It's and old scratch and dent from the Dell Outlet that I purchased about six years ago. Now, the only thing I use it for is personal finances and game emulators.
The laptop has a dual-core 1.73GHz Intel Core2Duo processor, 1GB of RAM, and an NVidia Geforce 7300GT graphics card. It's also running Windows XP SP3.
On the down-side, internal wireless card and the second RAM slot are fried. I do have a USB wireless adapter, so I can connect to the Internet, but my concern is the amount of RAM. The specs of the system state a max 2GB (2x1GB) of RAM, but I've seen others state, online, that they've successfully run 4GB (2x2GB) in their systems (same model).
So here's my conundrum. Do I spend all of $25 and install 1x2GB of RAM and a copy of Windows 7 (legit) given that neither are officially supported or do I just go ahead and look forward to my ($400) ASUS Transformer Tablet?
I would note, the upgrade I can do this week. The replacement would take several months.
So... What would you do?
-Wolf sends
P.S. I've also run Windows 7 Upgrade Adviser and it did not show any major issues. Some old programs that I don't even use are no longer compatible.
Just looking for other opinions here.
I have an old Dell Inspiron E1505/6400 laptop. It's and old scratch and dent from the Dell Outlet that I purchased about six years ago. Now, the only thing I use it for is personal finances and game emulators.
The laptop has a dual-core 1.73GHz Intel Core2Duo processor, 1GB of RAM, and an NVidia Geforce 7300GT graphics card. It's also running Windows XP SP3.
On the down-side, internal wireless card and the second RAM slot are fried. I do have a USB wireless adapter, so I can connect to the Internet, but my concern is the amount of RAM. The specs of the system state a max 2GB (2x1GB) of RAM, but I've seen others state, online, that they've successfully run 4GB (2x2GB) in their systems (same model).
So here's my conundrum. Do I spend all of $25 and install 1x2GB of RAM and a copy of Windows 7 (legit) given that neither are officially supported or do I just go ahead and look forward to my ($400) ASUS Transformer Tablet?
I would note, the upgrade I can do this week. The replacement would take several months.
So... What would you do?
-Wolf sends
P.S. I've also run Windows 7 Upgrade Adviser and it did not show any major issues. Some old programs that I don't even use are no longer compatible.
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