Pfft. When did you become such a girl? ;) You can return anything you buy with your Visa/Mastercard/AMX within 30days. I have personally returned DDR3 RAM to Microcenter with no restock fees, no hassle and no regrets. It should have worked in my system, but didn't. <div>
<br></div><div>@OP Buy it, try it and take it back if it sucks. Rejoice if it works better than expected.</div><div><br></div><div>YMMV, IANAL, $0.02. ;)</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Angelo McComis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:angelo@mccomis.com" target="_blank">angelo@mccomis.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font color="#330033" face="verdana, sans-serif">Tom,</font><div><div><font color="#330033"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br>
</font></font></font></div><div><font color="#330033"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Even if the DIMM that is physically </font></font></font><span style="color:rgb(51,0,51);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">compatible </span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,0,51)">with the slot is available in larger sizes, it doesn't mean that your mobo chipset be able to use it. If it sees it, it might not see all of it, or it might even refuse to see the memory at all.</span></div>
<div><font color="#330033"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#330033"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">I plugged your info in at Kingston.com because they have a memory/system configurator which I've always found to be useful.</font></font></font></div>
<div><font color="#330033"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#330033"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">It spits out that you have 2 slots, and each can be either blank, or up to 2048mb. That means you have a max of 4gb on that system. </font></font></font></div>
<div><font color="#330033"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#330033"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">To answer your question of "verify" - I would hate to see you go out and spend money on a 4gb dimm to prove a point, since memory is not usually returnable. I would go with what the specs say, and verify them a couple different ways (e.g. Dell.com and Kingston.com).</font></font></font></div>
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<div><font color="#330033"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Thomas W. cranston <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com" target="_blank">thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">How can I verify how much RAM my laptop can use? The Dell.com laptop<br>
forum indicates I can use a total of 8GB RAM (2 x 4 GB)<br>
<br>
Dell spec sheets site 4 GB max. I am assuming they assumed the laptop<br>
would be running XP or Vista.<br>
<br>
Crucial also sites the Dell specs.<br>
<br>
Dell Inspiron 1520. Ubuntu 10.04<br>
<br>
Tom<br>
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