G.SKILL 2GB Laptop Memory Review

My wife's old Acer laptop only had 1 Gb of RAM, so one of the best speed improvements we could make for her laptop was to increase the RAM. We did this by removing a 512Mb stick of RAM and replacing it with the G.Skill 2GB Laptop Memory. This bumped her from 1Gb to 2.5 Gb of RAM, (we left the other 512Mb stick in place), which not only seriously improved her speed and stability, but she does a lot of graphic and photo work, and what a difference that made.

The upgrade to her computer was very reasonable, costing only $25 for 2 Gigs of RAM, her intensive digital graphic work no longer flakes out her computer after 30 minutes of art work, and she feels almost as if she just got a new computer, It is amazing how much performance and stability can be achieved with the addition of a little memory. Beyond just selecting something to add cheaply, the consumer reviews on this were five eggs out of five from Newegg, so we felt secure in our purchase, and after adding it, we knew we had not made a mistake.

Memory is faster than hard drive space, and adding more memory will reduce the need for virtual memory, (which uses Hard Drive space to store data), thus allowing faster switching of data and processes. If $25 improves the performance of your computer by say 10% to 25%, the purchase of a new computer to make that increase in performance would cost in the hundreds of dollars, therefore making upgrade options well worth while, unless your dealing with a very old single core computer. The G.Skill Laptop memory is a fairly high rated brand, and in our experience, a very fast and solid performer.

specs for the G.SKILL 2GB DDR2 533 Laptop Memory:

Model# F2-4200CL4S-2GBSK
200 pin DDR2 SO-DIMM
2 GB
DDR2 533 / PC2 4200
CAS 4
4-4-4-12 Timing
1.8V
Non ECC
Unbuffered
Heat Spreader
Lifetime limited warranty

For a quick and inexpensive upgrade to your laptop, one of these or a similar item to meet your laptops specs would improve the speed and stability of your system. If you use Windows XP, XP will only recognize about 3 Gb of RAM, while Vista, depending on the version, will accept from 8 GB to 128 GB.