Acer Aspire ONE upgrade?

philharmonik

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I have model D255e-13647. I want to upgraded to 2gb of ram and possibly an SSD drive. I have contacted Acer and they said they do not recommend it. I know thats all BS and there are ways. They also said the system is not designed for an SSD. It has an HDD that has sata connection. I have a copy of Windows 7 ultimate to replace the "starter". I have seen other posts on here, but for slightly different models. Any suggestions or links?? thanks in advance for any help!
 

philharmonik

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Yeah I could care less about the warranty. Im an IT specialist. Just not had much experience with latops/netbooks. I've heard some say that the 1gb of ram is actually 512mb soldered on the board and 512 in the sodimm slot. If this model has actually a full 1 gig stick there, I dont see any problems. I guess I might open it up sometime this week and see whats inside.
 

philharmonik

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I mainly just want to be sure that I can put an SSD in there. With 2gb of ram it would make it so much faster.
 

dma0991

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I don't see the need for a 512MB soldered to the board and 512MB on the SODIMM slot, kind of defeats the purpose. As far as I know since the first ever Aspire One was released they have been using angled SODIMM slots and not soldered to the motherboard.
 

philharmonik

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Thanks for all the very helpful info everyone. Im going to tackle this thing this weekend. With work and school I have had no time to work on this.
 

Kapone

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Thanks for all the very helpful info everyone. Im going to tackle this thing this weekend. With work and school I have had no time to work on this.

I have the same exact netbook and want to upgrade the ram to 2gb also.

How did you make out?

Which RAM did you purchase?
 

RRZNagas

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Yeah it can be done. I did the RAM upgrade for a friends AAO. It was such a pain in the ass. It made me very happy that I bought an Asus 1005 HA netbook for myself.
 

Kapone

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Yeah it can be done. I did the RAM upgrade for a friends AAO. It was such a pain in the ass. It made me very happy that I bought an Asus 1005 HA netbook for myself.

I know, your right it is a pain. I found a video on how to change it, but it was on the costco model.

I have the walmart model and believe the method to change it is the same.

Im not sure which 2g stick of ram I would need to purchase though.
 

Kapone

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I found this post on this site.

This is for the Costco Model.

Would the same RAM work for the Walmart Model??


"""""Here is the 2gb Crucial item that worked fine in my wife's Acer D255e-1428 (Costco-$299-$20=$279). Atom N570/1.66mhz - 250gb

CT1596442 2GB, 204-pin SODIMM - $25

Strange that this model number isn't to be found on the Acer website. Anyway, on this model, no need to remove any but the four screws marked DOOR under the keyboard. Once these screws are out, the case plate on the bottom can be pushed loose through the exposed hole on the inside. There's a little diagram molded to the case (under the KB) in case you don't immediately recognize the push-through hole.

As far as the keyboard release clips go, the leftmost one along the top and the one on the left edge do not depress (not spring-loaded, just lugs.) Don't keep pushing those...they don't move. Your model may differ. Once the others have been depressed, you can gently pull the case edges out along that corner so that the KB pops up from the last two lugs. There is enough upward tension on the KB that it pops up as soon as the lugs are released. I did not remove the KB cable; it's easy enough to do this leaving it attached.

The D255e booted right up, 2gb recognized, no need to enter BIOS. Seems a little bit faster booting, but that could be all in my mind. Windows Experience Rating doesn't identify RAM as a problem anyway. The low numbers 2.9 and 2.0 come from the GRAPHICS and GAMING GRAPHICS, which no one buys these cheap netbooks for anyway. They are basically email, Facebook, and casual browsing machines, with decent performance on Office productivity tasks (if you MUST.) The rest of the WERs are Processor 3.3, RAM 4.6, HD 5.7.

It's for my wife, who already has a recently built Sandy Bridge DT, so we'll wait to see how she uses this before considering upgrades to W7 full version and MS Office. My guess is it will be fine as it is for lounging on the sofa and for staying in touch when traveling.

Incidentally, I originally bought a slightly older model for myself from Costco, hoping it would be a good, portable writer, but I have huge paws and just couldn't get used to the wrist angles needed for the smaller KB, so I took it back and got a 14" HP laptop instead. I loved the machine for its size and battery life, but my ape hands just didn't fit the KB."""""
 
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