Although the documenation doesn't mention it, I just tried a 2GiB SO-DIMM in my Dell X1 laptop and it works fine, although it does seem to lose the inbuilt 256MiB. The chip I got was a 2GiB PC2-5300 CL5 200 Pin SODIMM which has the bonus of also being sligtly faster than what I had before.

Old : 1196 MB in  2.00 seconds = 598.21 MB/sec
New : 1344 MB in  2.00 seconds = 671.89 MB/sec

To install, you only need undo the screws marked with "K" and then flip the keyboard up (crappy photo). It required a bit of force to seat the DIMM properly, at first I thought it wasn't working but a bit of a push and it was fine. If I could afford a solid state drive, I rekon I could rename my new memory enhanced laptop a "Dell Air"!

posted at: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:46 | in /toys | permalink | add comment (0 others)