compatibility and performance ?

[Aztec97gt]

i want to upgrade a friends laptop ram from 512 to 1gig the laptop is a HP Compaq NC6000 is this ram compatible

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145068

second question is it even worth upgrading will he even notice a performance difference

 

[Bodaggit23]

Maybe not so much, but would definitely notice if he upgraded
to 2Gigs of RAM.
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11794_na/11794_na.HTML

Looks like that RAM is spendy. I'm getting 2Gigs of DDR2 RAM for my
Gateway laptop for like $25.00

 

[Aztec97gt]

Thanks for that link i did not know if it would be able to handle 2 gigs. yeah a little pricey but its not my money. i'll let him know its compatible and he can get 2 of them and see what he says thanks again

 

[Aztec97gt]

he got the 2 gigs didnt notice to much of a diff but it does start up alot faster thoe :good:

 

[Bodaggit23]

You can speed it up a bit further by editing the programs that start when
Windows boots.

Click on the Start Menu, Run, type msconfig. You will see this dialog box:

In the Startup Tab, you can uncheck the boxes for the programs you don't
want to run at Windows boot.
(good rule of thumb: Most anything under "Command" that says "Program
Files" can be unchecked, EXCEPT any Antivirus programs)

This process can easily be undone by running msconfig again, and re checking
the boxes.

You will notice a substantial increase in performance by stopping some of these unnecessary programs. This will not uninstall the applications, it will
just prevent them from running at startup.