A memory question

[lawren2 Malibu Beach Barbie & A Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close lawren2]

This is what I have:

IBM THINKPAD T23

Intel Pentium III-M 1.0Ghz

256MB PC133 RAM (Max support 1024MB)

40GB Hard Drive

Running WinXP Pro

According to the seller's specs above and IBM specs from their website I can max out to one gig.

For what this machines uses are, I figure 512 additional is more than sufficient.

So 2 questions come up:

1.) Is it worth it to spend all the additional money for an IBM card? They run about $50 more than a generic brand such as Kingston. <I used Kingston in my Dell desktop with instant success>

2.) Crucial.com seems to think that each slot can only hold 256 "Each memory slot can hold SDRAM, PC133 with a maximum of 256MB per slot.*
Yet on the very same page references the max 1024mb.

any insight out there?

[Keitht Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Keitht]

Although the Crucial site doesn't mention them, 512mb memory modules are available - just not from Crucial. That is how a total of 1gb can be achieved.

See here for more info.

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

Lawren if you can max out to 1 gig then do it. I just installed 1 gig of ram on this old lap top that was starting to give me problems when I had to many pages open. Right now I have 20 open and I am flying. Find out what ram you need then buy it on Ebay. I got my 1 gig for about $80 shipped. I bought the same for my sons lap top as well.

I had 512megs of ram which under normal wear and tear is enough. I just have to many pages open at one time and it was just not enough for me. I can now even open Aol up with the 20 pages open and still not freeze up.

[gophish Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close gophish]

Lawren,
I agree with Frank, max it out if you can afford to and especially if you plan on keeping it for any length of time.
As far as buying the IBM card vs the generic ones go with the generic one, the IBM ones are not any better and most times now are made by someone else for IBM anyway.