OT: looking for advise on laptop upgrade

[Doug B]

For the RAM if you had a motherboard that could support it you could buy two 4GB sticks around the same price, it's not a viable upgrade for a significantly older laptop, especially as the RAM might not be used to its full potential depending on your CPU, which is harder to upgrade. I buy broken laptops on eBay to fix and resell on Amazon, it's worth replacing the laptop in general rather than upgrading. 

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On May 20, 2013, at 10:48 PM, "Juan R. de Silva" <juan.r.d.silva at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have Dell Latitude D820 laptop with Dual Core 1.8GHz CPU and 1GB of 
> RAM. The laptop is slightly over 6 years old.
> 
> Until recent I was satisfied with it. However with advent of new 
> technologies it started performing poorly with DEs like KDE4 or Unity. 
> Since I do not consider switching to neither Xfce nor LXDE, the only 
> choice I have is either to upgrade RAM up to 4GB, which would cost me 
> with taxes around $80-90, or to buy a new laptop. 
> 
> However I'm not sure on 2 things: 
> 
> 1. Would such RAM upgrade actually give me real significant burst in 
> performance? 
> 
> 2. This one is a tough one :-). 6 years old laptop could actually die at 
> any time leaving me with 2 not need memory sticks and lost $90.
> 
> So, I'm trying to make up my mind, whether to upgrade RAM or to forget 
> about it and to save $80-90 rather adding them to buying a new laptop.
> 
> Would somebody give me an advise on the subject and/or share his/her 
> related experience, please? At least on the first item:-).
> 
> 
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