HOW MUCH MEMORY?

[kloofnek]

How much memory can I put in my laptop.It is Vaio N series:512MB and 80GB.

[VHG]

It sounds an oldish model (4 years?), and I assume it runs Windows Vista.

From this web page here it says the N series can take a maximum of 2Gb, though sometimes different models can take different amounts of memory.

http://store.sony.com...385E/W#specifications

[VHG]

The company Crucial do provide a utility to tell you how much memory you have, the type of memory, and how much you can put in.

Note you dont have to buy the memory from them.

http://www.crucial.com/uk/

[kloofnek]

Windows XP..6 years actually.not been used much as also have desktop and notebook.I don`t uestand these MB and GB..

[kloofnek]

sorry accidently submitted:
I don`t understand these MB and GB .you say my laptop can only take 2GB,what is the 80 gb then?

[kloofnek]

The one in the pic looks like mine but different model.
mine is:VGN-N11M/W .

[HowardKennitby]

80 GB will be the capacity of your hard disk.

[kloofnek]

Beginning to get the h now...I think !!!

[kloofnek]

"the hang of it"

[VHG]

There are two types of memory in your computer.

1) Real memory (RAM) - This is the 512Mb / 2Gb figure

2) Hard disk memory - this is the 80Gb figure.

The first type of memory (RAM) is used to hold the programs that are RUNNING on your computer. When your computer closes down this memory is emptied.

The second type of memory (Hard disk) is used to hold Windows and all your programs and all your personal files (music, photos etc). This data stays on your hard disk when the computer closes down.

You can add more RAM memory, maybe up to 2Gb as I said.

You can replace the 80Gb hard disk with a larger hard dis, but you have to fidn a way to trasfer all the data from your 80Gb hard disk to the new hard disk, then put it in the computer so it will start Windows.

For a computer that is 6 years old it is probably not worth spending a lot of money as it is coming near to its end of life.

[hc4361]

The RAM (Random Access Memory) is the computer's thinking memory, the hard drive is its filing cabinet.

[kloofnek]

Thank you VHG for your easy-worded explanation.

[kloofnek]

and yours too,hc4361.thank you

[kloofnek]

culd someone please explain this to me:
"Integrated graphics take RAM away from the system RAM to use it as video RAM, let's say that you have 512MB of RAM in the system, the integrated graphics will take away from that so if it used 64MB which is what it uses in the MB then you will be left with 448MB of RAM for the system. Also integrated graphics performs a lot worse than dedicated graphics (ie radeon x1600) at games. So if you play games at all then I would suggest you opt for the MBP"

When it says it takes away eg:64MB ..is that only whilst actually playing a game ,so once finished ,will put it back,so to speak.

Confused!!