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I bought a new laptop, i need to figure out what ram to buy, Help please

RPS

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Hello,

I just bought this laptop.

Dell Inspiron 9300
Intel® Pentium® M Processor 730 (1.60 GHz/2MB Cache/533MHz FSB)
Win XP pro
17 inch UltraSharp? Wide Screen UXGA Display with TrueLife?
256MB DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz 1 Dimm
256MB NVIDA® GeForce? Go 6800
100GB Hard Drive
24X CD Burner/DVD Combo Drive
Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200 Internal Wireless (802.11 b/g, 54Mbps)
6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery (53 WHr)
FREE 64MB Dell USB Memory Key w/ 9-cell Lithium Ion Spare Battery (80 WHr)
TOTAL: $1,529.00

Here is the link to the laptop on Dell's site: http://www1.us.dell.com/content/product...nspn_9300?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn

I want to buy a 1gig chip somewhere. A friend of mine told me to buy this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820221121

I am unsure if this will work because it is 400mhz speed the the ram that came with the lappy is 533mhz.

Can i put a 400mhz chip into a comp that is built for 533mhz?

Is there a big diference between 400mhz and 533mhz?

When i buy my 1gig chip, can i keep the 256mb chip in there too and run 1256mb ram?

If my choices are wrong i would love for someone to find me a good 1gig ram chip that would fit my computer. I just have no idea what to look for. So many little options.

I do not have much experience with hardware so any help would be very apprecieted.

Alex

 
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