My sister has a Toshiba laptop with only 512mb ram and it's running Vista like s***e.

My question is how hard is it to upgrade ram in a laptop? Is it better to take it to a techy or is it just as easy as chucking a stick of ram in a desktop?

why would you even pit vista on a laptop that only has 512mb ram?

Tis pretty easy. Just click out and click in.

I just bought 2 laptops with vista, both ran like s***e. Upgraded to 2gb each and they run perfect now.

why would you even put vista on a laptop that only has 512mb ram?

She didn't. She needed a lappy for work and did the interest-free thing at Hardly Normal.
When she was buying it I told her to make sure she got XP on it but the sales rep said that it was pre-installed with Vista.

.. usual story

This was about a yr ago when Vista just came out. I'd heard that Vista was a prostitute (thats why I recommended XP) but I had no idea the extent to which it sucked on resources, even after a bit of optimization.

Also can you just use any old ram or does have to ram specifically designed for laptops?

last edited by sLaps_Forehead at 19:01:43 27/Jan/08

i'd open the RAM flap (somewhere on the back)and take out the 512 and take it to a store...they might even trade it in for you, my local up here does.
also by opening the back up you'll see if it has another slot or you just need a bigger single ram. go the most you can fit i reckon.

^ cheers

Not sure about Toshis but apparantly dells have a memory slot underneath the keyboard as well. So toshis might have one as well.

dells have a memory slot underneath the keyboard as well

Yea they do. also my toshi doesnt have one under the keyboard. Havent seen a toshi that does.

Toshiba M2 and M3

Find the model and go to: http://repair4laptop.org/

also http://www.irisvista.com/tech/laptops/ToshibaM2/tecra_M2_disassembly_2.htm for a toshi with the ram under the keys

last edited by Mr Hardware at 14:33:46 28/Jan/08

I put the ram in my hp laptop, it was pretty easy, and i dont know to much about computers. I have 2 x 512 DDR2 sticks for sale.

You might even be able to exercise your downgrade rights from Vista to Xp depending on which version of Vista you got