Upgrading laptop RAM, which one?

[deltaforce]

Hi folks,

I have 2 laptops, Toshiba Satellite A505-S6005 purchased at Bestbuy and Acer Aspire 5740, purchased in India (When my Dell Studio died all of a sudden)

Satellite has 4GB of RAM and Aspire has 3GB of RAM. Both have only 2 slots. If I understood correctly, both the laptops have DDR3-8500F RAM (533MHz). Crucial website suggestion for upgrade RAM is 204-pin SODIMM, DDR3 PC3-10600 or DDR3 PC3-8500 modules.

I am totally confused. They don't seem like to be the same as the one already installed in the laptops. Most likely Crucial is correct with their suggestion but I just wanted a human expert to confirm and a recommendation on which module I should go with (i.e. PC3-8500 or PC3-10600).
Also any recommendation on brand? Newegg has good reviews for G-Skill, Crucial and Kingston but (G-Skill PC3-10600 is little cheaper, with a good review).

The Screenshots from Speccy for both of these laptops are at http://www.mediafire.com/?lq554w6avvg8v

Finally,
Please tell me which one will you buy in this case?
And which brand will you go for?

Many thanks in advance.

 

[tracerbullet]

Couple thoughts off the top, don't take them as gospel though:

- Don't go off the pics on the Crucial site to see if it's the same as what you have now, they are generic stock pictures. Trust the Newegg pictures.
- If you currently have -8500, then either the -8500 or -10600 you're looking at will work. It's doubtful the faster one will actually run faster, but instead be dumbed down to what the laptop had in it before.
- Any of the brands mentioned should be fine. Run memtest or something on them after the install and if things pass you're good to go.

These pop up on Newegg for $39.99 and free shipping: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231342 Asking what I'd go with, given your specs, it'd be this.