If there's no free 512MB memory upgrade...

**barton boi** · 12-12-2003, 10:33 PM

I figured if Dell is not offering a free upgrade, go with the 1 DIMM 256MB, go to Newegg and buy a 512MB for less than $100, and you have 768MB for the price of 512MB

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Edit: Or if you're cheap save $50 and get a 256MB stick.

Will this void the warranty?

**Terry** · 12-12-2003, 10:55 PM

When you are going to send the laptop for fixing, just take out the extra RAM.

They won't know

**ATilaptops** · 12-13-2003, 12:55 AM

Yeah, mind as well. I wonder if you could also upgrade your own graphics card? No? crud

Oh, well at least you cna save on RAM and possibly your HDD

**barton boi** · 12-13-2003, 01:00 AM

You can only use Dell's VC AFAIK.

I wish they had 2 spare bays so we could have 2 HDs and 1 DVDRW, or 1 HD, a battery, and a DVDRW.

**melee** · 12-13-2003, 01:06 AM

Originally posted by barton boi
You can only use Dell's VC AFAIK.

I wish they had 2 spare bays so we could have 2 HDs and 1 DVDRW, or 1 HD, a battery, and a DVDRW.

The battery isn't in a modular bay unless you get a spare. Same with the HD, I had two (a little 6gb backup) with a HD Caddy in my modular bay. Right now my 8100 has a DVD, HD, battery, and CDRW...

I dunno about the new models, but I think they are similiar.

**ATilaptops** · 12-13-2003, 01:07 AM

Yeah

There ARE laptops like that but mostly ones with desktop P4's

I've configured such a one (for fun) which had 4 HDD's

but now optical drive

But you could make it have 3 HDD's and a DVD burner

And others with 2 batteries and an optical drive but they aren't as nic elooking or as think or as low priced or have the best cpu's or battery life or...you get the picture.

**barton boi** · 12-13-2003, 01:27 AM

Unfortunately there's only 1 spare bay in the 8600's. So you can have 1 HD, 1 DVDRW, and that's it. Obviously the primary battery but no spare one. If you wanted another HD you'd have to get external, or take out the DVDRW.

**ATilaptops** · 12-13-2003, 01:29 AM

Yeah, I know that sux, so why buy a spare battery? I guess so you can swap it when the othe rone dies? better than nothing. Those desktop replacemnt one shave a lot of bays cause they need 2 batteries to have over 30min. of battery oife

**barton boi** · 12-13-2003, 01:41 AM

Yea I'd just buy a second one if I wanted and put it in when the primary one ran out. It's also got more power than the one in the bay I believe? Correct me if I'm wrong.

**coolqf** · 12-13-2003, 09:25 AM

You can actually tell the computer to go into sleep mode and switch the batteries that way (no need to shut the computer off completely) Once I had it accidentally in sleep mode and had removed the battery. I replaced it soon after (30seconds or so) and it still loaded from sleep mode.

**ATilaptops** · 12-13-2003, 05:51 PM

So that's how that works, I wasn't sure, I thought you just swapped 'em real fast

**barton boi** · 12-15-2003, 03:49 PM

Originally posted by Terry
When you are going to send the laptop for fixing, just take out the extra RAM.

They won't know

If I installed the RAM and wanted to return it before the 30 days are up and they somehow found out, would they refuse the refund?

Edit: Say I delivered a static discharge to the memory slot

**ATilaptops** · 12-15-2003, 05:10 PM

Well, then you're probably screwed, but then again how will they know that you're the reaosn the DIMM isn't working? It could have been shipped that way

**Daywalker** · 12-15-2003, 05:28 PM

I got a second battery for a free upgrade - can't use it and the optical drive at the same time. Nobody's perfect.

**ATilaptops** · 12-15-2003, 05:45 PM

That's different, you can swap batteryies for longer battery life

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