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Will laptop benefit an extra 256MB memory?

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azev

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My company currenty have around 50 inspiron 4100 1ghz P3 with windows xp and 256MB memory.
Most people do office stuff and email on their email, some did a lot of presentation, but we have no hardcore users on the laptop. Recently a lot of them complain that their computer has slowing down alot since they got them. Now my laptop has 512MB and it still working just fine. Could upgrading memory from 256-512 make a lot of difference ??

Thanx
 
It could. Kinda depends on the individual machine and its exact use.

-does it have SP1 loaded
-does it get rebooted regularly or is it put to sleep or hibernate
-does it have shareware programs on it (kazaa)

256Mb is suffice for XP in most situations. 512Mb is nice, but not necessary.

Good Luck!!

~skiznots



 
Maybe they are slowing down because the hard drive is getting filled up. Do they use the disc cleanup to clean the drive of unneeded things.
 
you will notice a large boost by upgrading to 512mb. it's the sweet-spot for memory and winxp right know, afaik. some people are even suggesting a gig of ram.
 
The slowdown is probably due to the hard drive getting fragmented. Defrag and make sure they're using NTFS. (my friend's Toshiba came with XP and used FAT32)
 
Currenty all the laptops came with a 20gb drive. I am quite sure that it is possible that they fill up their drives.
I am having a big problem monitoring these computers because they are located in 20 different states.
Next may all of them will go to corporate office for a meeting, which is a good time for me to upgrade these laptops.
So what do you think guys ?? should I just perform regular maintenance?, reinstall the whole computer?, or add more memory ?
All of our laptops have 2 128mb modules, so I can either get one 512MB or get 2 256MB modules. I check crucial, but they are very costly, any other reputable store to get memory from ?

Thanks
 
Originally posted by: azev
Currenty all the laptops came with a 20gb drive. I am quite sure that it is possible that they fill up their drives.
I am having a big problem monitoring these computers because they are located in 20 different states.
Next may all of them will go to corporate office for a meeting, which is a good time for me to upgrade these laptops.
So what do you think guys ?? should I just perform regular maintenance?, reinstall the whole computer?, or add more memory ?
All of our laptops have 2 128mb modules, so I can either get one 512MB or get 2 256MB modules. I check crucial, but they are very costly, any other reputable store to get memory from ?

Thanks
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I think a cleanup, defrag, and checking the programs that load at boot would be adequate.

amish
 
think a cleanup, defrag, and checking the programs that load at boot would be adequate.
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I thought so. I just bought licenses for diskeeper so that I can schedule defrag automaticaly. I told my user many times to do it on their own, but they never did. With diskeeper they dont have to do anything and it will defrag it for them automaticaly.
My plan was to reinstall their computer and to break drive partition in to 3 separate parition for OS, Apps, Files.
I usually do that on a server, but after testing it on my laptop for a while, it actualy helps alot. Expecially with defragging, normally only drives c needed to defrag and the other d and e is rarely get fragmented.

My company has approved for me to upgrade the memory, and hoping that the life of the laptop will be increase. Do you thing these laptop will last until 2006? given there are no hardware problems ? The plan is to replace all our laptop/desktop/servers at the same time.
 
With the task that you gave (email, internet, PP presentations) I would imagine they should be good until 2006 if they are properly maintained.
 
With the task that you gave (email, internet, PP presentations) I would imagine they should be good until 2006 if they are properly maintained.
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Would that require the 512MB upgrades though ?? or 256MB should be ok afterall ?
 
I upgraded my laptop to 512MB (since Dell was running an offer I couldn't refuse) and noticed a pretty nice performance increase.

Check out to see if the memory is shared. A lot of Laptop Video Cards share the memory, resulting in less that rated. If that is the case, I would definately upgrade. If anything, upgrade a few at a time. If they report a significant performance increase, upgrade the rest...
 
Originally posted by: azev
With the task that you gave (email, internet, PP presentations) I would imagine they should be good until 2006 if they are properly maintained.
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Would that require the 512MB upgrades though ?? or 256MB should be ok afterall ?
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Make sure all of your laptops have 512mb of ram if you're planning on keeping them until 2006. 512 is reccomended right now, nevermind 3 years down the line. You're lucky, memory prices have been pretty cheap lately. Good luck.
 
Originally posted by: azev
My company currenty have around 50 inspiron 4100 1ghz P3 with windows xp and 256MB memory.
Most people do office stuff and email on their email, some did a lot of presentation, but we have no hardcore users on the laptop. Recently a lot of them complain that their computer has slowing down alot since they got them. Now my laptop has 512MB and it still working just fine. Could upgrading memory from 256-512 make a lot of difference ??

Thanx
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For Windows XP? Definitely! More so than a desktop ram upgrade because hdd's are so much slower than desktop hdds.
 
Sounds like a lot of people need to optimize and clean up their HDDs, and also get the crap out of the Registry with something like Norton WinDoctor. When things start slowing down, it is usually because of system congestion.
 
Originally posted by: azev
Currenty all the laptops came with a 20gb drive. I am quite sure that it is possible that they fill up their drives.
I am having a big problem monitoring these computers because they are located in 20 different states.
Next may all of them will go to corporate office for a meeting, which is a good time for me to upgrade these laptops.
So what do you think guys ?? should I just perform regular maintenance?, reinstall the whole computer?, or add more memory ?
All of our laptops have 2 128mb modules, so I can either get one 512MB or get 2 256MB modules. I check crucial, but they are very costly, any other reputable store to get memory from ?

Thanks
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try kingston they are cheap and good
 
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