Laptops can i upgrade my laptop? URGENT PLEASE

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liquidmonkey

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i have a lenovo 3000 v100 laptop with a INTEL T2400 @ 1.83GHz that i would like to upgrade a little bit. oh yeah, running XP pro SP3.

am i able to stick in...

4 gigs of ram, i'm thinking of getting 2 sticks of 2gig kingston DDR2 ram.
(there are 2 sticks of 512MB at the moment)

a new HDD, want to get a 2.5" 320gig Seagate or Western Digital HDD. they are all a common size right? so it will fit right?
(there is a 2.5" 100Gig used at the moment)
first time upgrading a laptop and its much easier than i thought as its all below behind a cover or two, just not sure of components in a laptop.

thanks for your answers!
 
AFAIK, if the laptop does support a Max RAM of 4GB, you should have no problems to replace the existing 2 x 512MB sticks by 2 x 2GB ones.

Also any 2.5" HDD can replace you current 100GB hard disk. Please check whether the laptop board supports SATA before opting for a SATA hard drive.
 
the 4gig suggestion is exactly what i want but i've been told the notebook only supports max 1 gig per slot, any truth to that?

links?

my HDD is a SATA so will get a 5400 RPM 320 gig :)
 
thanks for the links!!

i did a bit more searching and the 3000 v100 comes in different configurations and the one i have only allows for MAX 2GIG RAM which kinda blows but whatever, i'll get 2x1gig sticks tomorrow and it will b a bit better anyway...

my only remaining question is if laptops are super fussy about the ram used or can i generally speaking use any manufacturer? i was going to get some kingston ram which i have always been happy with in the past.

any thoughts on that?
 
In general, you should have no problems with reputed brands like corseair, kingston, transcend if correct type of RAM is selected (similar in PIN configuration and DDR type as your existing one)
 
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