I need to buy some of this memory
for my Dell Inspiron 8600. The laptop currently has 2 256mb sticks. Should I buy 1 GB and keep one 256mb stick for a total of 1.25 GB?
Will that old stick decrease the performance of the extra 1GB?
Also my impression is that DDR prices should go up in the future because they are no longer making DDR. Is that the case for laptop DDR as well?
Maybe I should just go with 2GB now before the prices go up?
Thanks for any comments.
*Edit* By the way I use this laptop for business purposes, word processing, accounting software, photoshop for pictures and editing, Web programming, internet, and very light gaming. I often have the need to have several applications open at once, and it really slows me down.
for my Dell Inspiron 8600. The laptop currently has 2 256mb sticks. Should I buy 1 GB and keep one 256mb stick for a total of 1.25 GB?
Will that old stick decrease the performance of the extra 1GB?
Also my impression is that DDR prices should go up in the future because they are no longer making DDR. Is that the case for laptop DDR as well?
Maybe I should just go with 2GB now before the prices go up?
Thanks for any comments.
*Edit* By the way I use this laptop for business purposes, word processing, accounting software, photoshop for pictures and editing, Web programming, internet, and very light gaming. I often have the need to have several applications open at once, and it really slows me down.