ram: I cant find anything about if ran can be upgraded to 2 or more g. what kind is it?
1443234
I've upgraded mine to 2 gb (my 904ha shows 1.99g). It was done by 1) disabling the "boot booster" at bios setup, and then 2) changing the ram at the back (two screws, that's it). Of course, afterwards, you've got to go back to bios setup and enable "boot booster." As I've written about in my review, I couldn't get my OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 to work. but my OCZ DDR2 PC2-5400 worked fine. The original ram is PC2-5300, so perhaps PC2-6400 will not work. I don't know if that's true.
1812530
You can use up to 2 GB per slot, so the max would be 8 GB (up to PC2-6400 speed), I have not tried 4 GB memory in one slot, it may work, but isn't officially supported.
974776
Yes, you can upgrade the RAM, but only to 8 G. Also, it only has room for one chip and make sure you get the right one. As far as changing out the HD drive, I believe you can, but I am not sure which one you could use. Maybe when you change the RAM you can check what is possible with the drive since you have to pull the whole bottom off to access the memory. I've been using the laptop as is and it works well for all I do. I woul recommend using the laptop for awhile before you change anything. Maybe it will work just fine "as is" for you?
312376
As far as you can with two slots of laptop RAM. I was able to put 8GB in there and it improved performance a lot.
651110
yes upgrade to 8g instead of 6 I would also replace hd with ssd...for super fast...
1128977
48GB RAM = 4GB x 12 Slot. The problem is, it might only run dual channel if you use a lot of RAM.
1219329
There are 2 open memory slots under the access cover. I was able to upgrade it to 32GB of RAM with no trouble at all.
1170931
That's up to you, but remember RAM runs at the speed of the slowest chip. So if your 2GB is slow, your new Ram will run slow. Going from 2GB to 8GB is a big jump, so you could probably even just take out the 2GB and be fine. It also depends on if you want to upgrade later. Good luck!
2010924
You can definitely upgrade it to 16GB.There are two pairs of ram card slots.one pair of slots is easy to get to and the other...Not so much, If you are confident in your computer dis-assembly and reassembly skillsthan you should be fine (But I believe it might void the warranty if you take your computer apart that much) Upgrading to 32GB which would be 4 X 8GB cards in the laptop.So to recap,It maxes at 32GB it's just hard to get to the last 2 slots.
417055
This model can support up to 16GB. There are two RAM slots, one is occupied by 1x8GB leaving a second one open for upgrade.
1948288
I do not believe the RAM can be upgraded. Not sure about any other hardware.
1496734
I am interested in the same: what brand to upgrade to for 2X2gb; also, in what aspects did you notice an improvement?
1241424
It will depend on how many slots your machine has available for RAM. Look in your machine to see if you have an empty slot. If you do, then you can just put more RAM in the empty slot. If all of the slots are taken, you will want to replace one of the smaller sticks of RAM with a larger one.
2168571
It supports up to 16gb of ram in each slot. You only need 1 RAM stick to have it work but using 2 will make it run faster.
1201583
Buddy, Yes it can be upgraded to a maximum of 16 gb as per the maximum specifications. However, practically I haven't tried. To best of my judgement I think it will support as HP must have done the bench marking or tests with maximum amount of RAM it can squeeze in.
1116256
I believe there are only two slots for ram memory sticks and both are being used by the existing 2 gig of ram each. To get it up to 8 gigs you may need to remove both memory sticks and install 2 new ones of 4 gig each. Basically you are throwing away the existing ram to upgrade to full 8 gigs. As for me, since I only use it as a multimedia server for my bedroom the 4 gigs is very adequate. Good luck.
1346947
I can't actually answer your question (yet, going to install soon) however since the upgrade to 2gb (via two 1gb chips) is only around $30 here on amazon it seems silly not to upgrade.. also waiting on my memory so I'll post back with my experiences :)