by "Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
Published 02/06/2017 at 15:12
by "Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
Published 02/06/2017 at 15:12
Tags: chromebook
; laptop
; laptoplopnik
; rain drop drop top laptop
STARS: 2
Pooped open my Chromebook to see how LADEN WITH DUST the fan was, as its been getting hot lately, and LO AND BEHOLD there’s an empty slot when I CAN STICK IN MORE RAM. (the white rectangle above the blue rectangle in the center)
Did some research online (Chromebook owners are a techie bunch) and found that yes, yes I can add more RAM. Maybe even as much as 16GB. It came with 2GB, FYI. 2. TWO. Piddly. But so far its worked fine for nearly 4 years and just recently its been getting quite hot while watching YouTube (and only YouTube, which is 90% the use this thing gets) and tabbing out causes issues and other webpages don’t want to load, or load slowly.
I ordered a 4GB stick to add to it. I didn’t want to spend TOO much $$$ on this old junker.
6GB should work nicely.
"4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30" (4muddyfeet)
02/06/2017 at 15:14, STARS: 5
That’s an impressive anus you have
"For Sweden" (rallybeetle)
02/06/2017 at 15:18, STARS: 0
But can it game brah
"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
02/06/2017 at 15:18, STARS: 0
Thankfully only one screw holds the cover on.
"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
02/06/2017 at 15:18, STARS: 0
I played Angry Birds on it once.
"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
02/06/2017 at 15:19, STARS: 0
How much change did you find?
"Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap" (ddadragon)
02/06/2017 at 15:20, STARS: 0
Apparently my Macbook Air has 2 2GB cards in from the factory but if you put in different cards, even though there was an 8GB option, the OS won’t recognize it.
"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
02/06/2017 at 15:20, STARS: 0
$0
"and 100 more" (nth256)
02/06/2017 at 15:21, STARS: 0
I have an old Cr-48 that doesn’t like Youtube at all. I keep wanting to do things with it, but fuuuuuck is it ever slow...
"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
02/06/2017 at 15:21, STARS: 0
Oh sweet that’s enough for a big pile of.
"Stapleface" (patrickgruden)
02/06/2017 at 15:23, STARS: 0
Hmmm, I didn’t know what chromebooks have (potentially) an open ram slot. I’ll have to look in to mine. I love my chromebook. It’s my beside the bed computer. Whenever I have to look something up quick at night it’s right there. And you just can’t beat the battery life.
"Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
02/06/2017 at 15:23, STARS: 0
That’s actually a common limitation for Mac OS. The hardware can often support more RAM than the OS can...Why? Apple. lol Basically Apple will gimp the lower models using the OS so you can’t have as much power as the model you didn’t pay for.
"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
02/06/2017 at 15:24, STARS: 1
I get about 4-5 hours on mine. Less if the fan is running constantly. I read that older ones like mine are upgradeable, but the newest models are not.
"Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap" (ddadragon)
02/06/2017 at 15:24, STARS: 0
Because they wanted me to drop extra $ on the 8GB version. My original plan was to upgrade the ram but nope can’t do it
"Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
02/06/2017 at 15:27, STARS: 0
That looks like the chassis to an Acer Aspire V5 netbook. Surprisingly, you may find that with even more RAM it’ll still be pitiful...the processors in them are pretty much relics.
"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
02/06/2017 at 15:31, STARS: 1
Its a Acer C710 so I’m not surprised. Any upgrade is an upgrade though. People who’ve added RAM have stated that the OS and browser do work faster.
"R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet" (r-saldana)
02/06/2017 at 15:33, STARS: 2
Dear Lord get that pleb drive out of there and my eyesight
"66671 - 200 [METRIC] my dash" (66671)
02/06/2017 at 15:35, STARS: 0
Can you put in two different kinds of ram? I thought I read somewhere that it’s not optimal, but idk.
"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
02/06/2017 at 15:38, STARS: 1
Yes. There was a thread with a link to a list of what works/doesn’t work but it was a dead link. I’m sticking with a 4gb stick of original Acer ram. Its even the same blue color. IT HAS TO WORK.
"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
02/06/2017 at 15:39, STARS: 0
lol its not even screwed down. Found that out the hard way
"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
02/06/2017 at 15:49, STARS: 0
Oh wow, a removable standard-sized/interface SATA hard drive? Get a decent SSD and some more RAM in there and that’ll be a fairly decent machine. What chromebook is it?
Them tags tho
"Nibby" (nibby68)
02/06/2017 at 15:53, STARS: 4
JOIN THE SSD MASTER RACE
"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
02/06/2017 at 15:57, STARS: 0
acer C710
"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
02/06/2017 at 15:59, STARS: 0
If and when I build my next PC.... Come tax time we’re trying to decide to get something cheap the kids can do homework/play games on, get the wife a touchscreen like a Surface, or go all out and build a gaming rig.
Probably end up somewhere in the middle.
"Nibby" (nibby68)
02/06/2017 at 16:10, STARS: 5
buy a 386 for the kids, 486DX2 for hte wife and get yourself a fancy new Pentium
"In a Mini; let them mock me as My Mini Countryman is higher than you" (hoontheangelsing)
02/06/2017 at 16:17, STARS: 0
How old are your kids? If they’re in Middle school, let them build a gaming rig with you for a cool family time experience.
"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
02/06/2017 at 16:20, STARS: 1
Its all about the Celerons, baby
"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
02/06/2017 at 16:21, STARS: 0
One’s in 3rd, the other started middle school this year. The middle schooler isn’t into games but the 3rd grader is.
"RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars" (rallydarkstrike)
02/06/2017 at 16:30, STARS: 0
I’ve been meaning to get SSDs for my Win10 gaming desktop, but I hate getting rid of the other drives when they still work perfectly, and I don’t really mind the extra waiting at all.
Also, I don’t even get to use it as such as much anymore as I am very busy and find myself on my old (i.e AMD Athlon II 64-bit 2.2GHZ, 4G RAM) rebuilt Toshiba laptop running Linux Mint 18.1 more than anything, lately.
"Anima" (anima)
02/06/2017 at 21:13, STARS: 1
!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
or just say bedside computer!
"wkiernan" (wkiernan)
02/06/2017 at 21:38, STARS: 0
Imagine MS-DOS 6.22 loading off an SSD. Imagine loading a “big” DOS application - say, AutoCAD release 12 - off an SSD. It would be like flicking on the light switch.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
02/06/2017 at 21:44, STARS: 0
If it’ll actually use it. Did you research that?
"Nibby" (nibby68)
02/06/2017 at 22:21, STARS: 0
Actually I kinda have a setup like that. Sort of.
I have MS-DOS 6.22 + Windows for Workgroups 3.11 on a 4GB CompactFlash card (CF to IDE adapter) in my HP Vectra VL5 200. Also has Windows 95 on it.
"valsidalv, reminding you that infiniti is an option" (valsidalv)
02/07/2017 at 00:25, STARS: 0
It won’t make a big deal in your Chromebook but for future reference always buy RAM in equal memory sizes and in pairs (even better if it’s a single kit that contains 2 or 4 sticks). You can then take advantage of the dual-channel architecture which in theory doubles your memory bandwidth. It’s kinda like going to a grocery store and splitting up your haul between two checkout lines.
"Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura" (sundowne36)
02/07/2017 at 02:31, STARS: 0
It’s better than my laptop, because guess where the main RAM slots are located?
"Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street." (demon-xanth)
02/07/2017 at 09:52, STARS: 1
300A@450MHz biznatch!
"Ready for an adventure!" (liljoe)
02/07/2017 at 15:52, STARS: 0
you fergot the math co-processor!! and ALL the autoexec.bats! and config.sys!