[mdlug] Linux is "greener"

[Rich Clark <rrclark@rrclark.net>]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Robert Adkins wrote:

> 
> > 
> > > From: Rich Clark <rrclark at rrclark.net>
> > 
> > > Even Windows would be sluggish with only 384MB RAM. You 
> > might want to 
> > > get a stick of RAM for that machine since it's pretty cheap 
> > for a GB.
> > 
> >  It's a Dell Inspiron 2650; it can only handle 512MB max. I 
> > already bumped it up from 256MB. Replacing the second memory 
> > module is much harder, though... I'd have to literally 
> > dismantle the entire laptop.
> > 
> >  Not a project I'm likely to tackle anytime soon. I have many 
> > other projects demanding my attention, most of them 
> > non-computer-related.
> > 
>
> 	It's not that hard.
>
> 	You have to lift up the keyboard, which is very easy to do, once you
> have done it enough times on enough laptops.
>
> 	To do that, you might need to open up the laptop, flat like a book,
> gently pry the plastic bits that are attached to the base of the laptop and
> cover/protect the hinge.
>
> 	Once that is up, there are likely two screws holding the keyboard in
> place, lift that up and then you can unscrew the EMI shielding and reveal
> the RAM.
>
> 	This shouldn't take more than 5 minutes to do.

I confirm; the laptops I have here open up in the same manner. One has a 
slide on the top of the base near the hinges, and you just slide it to the 
right, lift it away, and then pull the keyboard up and back. The other 
laptops access the memory slots through a removable cover panel on the 
bottom of the machine.