So basically what I'm asking here is for help deciding if the expense is worth the upgrades and, if I do decide to proceed, help making sure I don't stupidly buy something that is entirely the wrong part, will break as soon as I open the box, or somehow melt my machine. I don't really have a set budget for it.. I'm going by economical is best, unless there is some great benefit to something more pricey. I'm not sure if SSDs are too expensive, but I'm also not really sure if I'm looking at the right ones.
Below is my trying to figure out which cryptic identifiers most closely resemble what is already in my machine. xD
I opened up the access panels on the bottom and wrote down the RAM numbers, "RMT3020EF48E8W-1333", which googling told me I had "RAMAXEL 2GB DDR3 PC3-10600S-999 SODIMM MEMORY MODULE RMT3020EF48E8W-1333". Knowing absolutely nothing about what most of that means and just matching up filter options with things I see and pretty much clicking the first results, I found this or this. I know nothing of brands or anything, so I have no idea what else to look for or if either of these are suitable (my friend said he's seen people talking about gskill so recommended that, probably just because he's heard of it).
Also I think this tiny and mysterious empty slot might be related to an SSD slot, since the laptop specs I found (which don't seem to be very technical or specific) say it can come with one:
Except I'm not sure what that little wire is for...
If it is, I have no idea what size or kind fits in it. xD I'm only familiar with 3.5" and 2.5"-sized drives, and not like matchbook-sized ones (newegg search filter options do show such tiny sizes ..).
If it's not, I took a picture of my harddrive's label and see that it is "SATA 3.0Gb/s" which ... I'm lost at. Looking it up on wikipedia, is that SATA II? I'm starting to think I should have taken a picture of the connector... xD
If anyone feels like providing input or helping to guide me, it would be much appreciated. I know next to nothing when it comes to hardware stuff... xD
EDIT:
Googling shows there is a different slot that the SSD goes in to. It says it's an mSATA slot, and I don't know what that is.
EDIT2:
This is the slot:
I guess it's not really the best picture with it straight down over it, but it's the only way the flash didn't completely wash out the image (and no flash is too dark to see).
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226362 ?
Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on May 15 2015, 7:06 am by FaRTy1billion.
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