Old Laptop Sodimms needed.

[El Wayneo]

Hi,

So, my girlfriends goddaughter is a bit of a pain in the ****, she desperately wants a laptop but her parents cannot afford to get her one.

I have dug my old Dell Latitude C610 (Pentium 3 1ghz CPU, 128mb 133mhz RAM) out of its coffin and swapped the HDD and it now works.

I have added XP Home, but its very slow, have stripped it down to the basics, but still facing 5 minute boot-times to a useable start menu, itunes takes ages to load.

So does anyone have any PC100 or PC133, must be 144 pin Laptop sodimms? Ideally i require 256mb or 512mb.

Have looked on the what used to be an auction site but is now just a crap shop and will bid on some but as will all old technology the prices are sky high.

So anybody?

Will pay of course.

[wonderlust]

seems the maximum ram this takes is 1GB
Now the bad news cheapest ram (311-2036) is about £55 (inc postage) for a single 512Mb Sodimm.

[El Wayneo]

I know its crazy money, i reckon it will run alot lot better on 512mb, was just asking if anyone has any lying around?

[wonderlust]

I think you assumption about the performance is very well founded, especially if it has onboard graphics using main memory!

But I think you will either have to take a risk on Fleabay or bite the bullet and pay £55 inc postage.

[El Wayneo]

55 quid is out of the question.

2 x 256mb on fleabay go for 12 poonds, am just trying to make it as cheap as possible.

It was alot faster on Windows 2000 when i first go it.

Thanks though.

[Aaron]

Cheapest way of getting some original performance back is to format the HD and reinstall the whole lot again

Is that possible? Do you have any of the original disks?

[wonderlust]

He has already done that

[Aaron]

oh yeah.. that'll teach me to skim read a first post

[wonderlust]

Happens to us all lol me more than most

[M4T VW]

I have a C610 that i use for all my car diagnostics and its very fast using XP! You must have somthing wrong as i can boot into XP in 1 min.
Faster than my 1k sony will boot into vista anyway!

Edit - Infact i have the old 512 DDR-333MHZ, PC2700 here.
Bang us £5 into paypal and you can have it:thumbsup:

[M4T VW]

Also seem to have 2 WM3A2100 802.11 (B only) Mini PCI cards if you need one.

[El Wayneo]

Hi,

It only takes PC100/133 and it has to be 144 pin.

Thanks though

[M4T VW]

Hmm Thats strange, Thats what i thought it was. Im sure i have some that came out of my C610 anyway. Will have a look tomorrow when i can see straight

[El Wayneo]

Okay mate thanks.

[PeterStoba]

Would it be possible to e-bay the C610 and buy a cheap netbook?

The C610s seem to be going for quite a reasonable sum on ****, £50-£80, and even up to £100, add the £20 you would spend on RAM and get an EEE PC or something.