looking for best deal on some laptop shit

Minion · Post by **Minion** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:00 pm

wait - i CAN crack open a lappy and upgrade ram? i asked a guy at work about this and he said i couldn't.
is he just as hardware useless as me?

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:06 pm

even more so

if you paste the model number into the HP site, it'l give you guides.
one or two of these tell you how to reach the memory slot under the unit and under the keyboard

considering my unsteady hands, almost anyone should be able to replace memory in a laptop...just be sure that you're properly grounded when you do it (pretty much just touch/keep in contact with something metal that thouches the ground)

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:08 pm

even better, here's the link to the setp by step guide on the HP site for the laptop you mentioned on the other page

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:19 am

Link with pics.
"(note that this installation process applies to MOST notebooks, not all!)"

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:39 am

bah...I usually check my links...
this one should work
click on the one that says "memory modules" on the bottom (fourth from the top)

Willen · Post by **Willen** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:18 am

Most notebook computers allow a tech (or you) to easily upgrade/replace RAM and swap hard drives without taking the whole darn thing apart. On my Sony notebook, there are 2 little panels held closed with screws. One panel covers the memory slots and the other covers the bay for the hard disk drive. If you do this upgrading yourself, make sure you ground yourself and then unplug the computer and remove the battery pack to avoid shorting anything out.

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:20 am

Minion wrote:really, IDGAF about my preview window, so long as it doesn't export fucked up.
i don't play WoW. about the only online game i still play is tribes , which is pretty fuckin' old (1998?)

so lets say, if i just wanted the lappy for editing is 6.5 and vdubmod while im at work or on the road, and internet browsing, would 128mb shared do the trick?

would my video just not render? would some programs not run at all? as i said, i'm not too hardware savy

Pfft. Do you have any idea how little your system uses the video memory when working on digital video programs? You'd get buy on 32mb of video memory for most tasks, unless you're doing After Effects with hardware accelerated rendering but that only (really) works on Nvidia cards. http://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects/opengl.html

If you want to run Premiere 6.5 and virtualdub to do basic editing you need next to nothing in terms of system requirements. You would want at least 512mb of system memory for the OS and if you work with a lot of lossless files probably more cause those things can be mean if you're ripping threw a lot of them. I was doing 640x480 AMVs in Premiere with Huffy's from Vdub with my P3@500mhz with 512mb of ram no problem. Only limit the slow CPU gave me was slow video encoding times upon completion of the project.

I'm doing editing with my Celeron M 1.3ghz laptop and it's pretty much excessive for editing except any After Effects rendering... But just about any computer isn't enough for that. T_T

Minion · Post by **Minion** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 11:21 am

alright, i think i've found what i want. it's a bit above my budget, but i'll manage. thanks for the replies

Minion · Post by **Minion** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 3:34 am

thanks for your help guys. i got an hp dv1660se and love it.
i have an external hd picked out for my next paycheck