Memory question, what does low profile memory mean?

[stingbandel]

Hi, I am looking for a memory and I see people advertise it like this. Low profile, high quality. What does the low profile mean? What do you look specifically when you're looking for a memory? Do you look at the chipset or whatever? What kind of chipset is the good one? It's for my notepad. So please let me know. Thanks

Darno

 

[MichaelD]

Good morning. Low profile just means that the PCB is a shorty. Some mobo's/cases do have internal height limitations for one reason or another. I have a stick of Infineon memory that's about 1/4 inch shorter (height) than my stick of Micron. It runs just fine. As long as you stick with good memory (Micron/Mushkin/etc) it doesn't matter whether it's a shorty or not.

 

[CrackRabbit]

MichaelD has it correct, the chips on the "short" memory the chips are usualy mounted horizontaly and "tall" memory is usualy verticaly.

 

[stingbandel]

so based on this, does anybody know what kind of memory the IBM A21p series use? Thanks

Darno

 

[MichaelD]

If you go to Crucial's Website they have a "memory selector" app that you can use to determine what kind of memory you need.

 

[stingbandel]

thanks, I went there already but the site didn't tell what kind of chipset they used.

Darno