Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] RAM for Ubuntu

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I added a gig of ram to my laptop recently and it only cost about $100. 
Offhand I don't remember the memory type but it was just a normal SODIMM 
of some kind or another. Will upgrade it another gig soon since it has 2 
slots for memory. My gawd it was such a pain to upgrade the memory in 
this cheapie Averatec because online FAQ had the entirely wrong location 
for the memory and told me to take off the bottom when really I needed 
to remove the keyboard and some other parts to upgrade the memory. I 
threw the old chip into a friend's even cheaper Dell as a gift and the 
Dell was so much easier. It only had the one slot available but you 
could access it by removing one screw on the bottom to open a little 
panel. I guess the point of this rant is.. does your laptop not take the 
1GB SODIMM's?
> Well, that didn't take long.  The machine runs great, modulo the usual 
> tweaks one has to make.  One thing it could clearly use is some more 
> RAM.  Tragically, I believe this thinkpad takes 144-pin SODIMMs and 
> has a free slot for only 1, so I think the most DRAM I can get into 
> the thing is 320 MB, which would be up from 192 MB I have now.  Does 
> anybody know enough about Ubuntu and its memory footprint to tell me 
> whether the speed-up is worth the ~$70 for the 256 MB DIMM?
--
Michael McGlothlin, tech monkey
Tub Monkey
http://www.tubmonkey.com/


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