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To: TigerPaw who wrote (132459)	6/11/1999 7:26:00 PM
From: AJ Berger	Respond to of 176387

Thanks for stating the obvious "You can't put desktop memory in a notebook" I already put a generic DIMM in my IBM Thinkpad 560 and am well aware that desktop and notebook DIMMs are of different form factors. But thanks for letting any idiots here who didn't know that in on your tip! now for all the non-idiots that don't need your advice, he's a useful tidbit. 128MB DIMMs are dramatically more expensive then 64MB DIMMS in on a single assembly, so it's much cheaper to either get 2 64MB DIMMs or if you insist on one so you can still expand past 128MB, then it's cheaper to get the DELL 128MB single DIMM solution, then actually doing it yourself. But if you can tolerate both slots in use, or less than 128MB, then doityourself is the way to go. Just be sure to choose a chip module vendor who is large enough to have a list of compatible notebooks his modules were tested on. This way descrepencies like form factor, 2 or 4 clock, and voltage can be assured at purchase. And that advice to replace the factory original chip and take your doityourself chips out whenever sending the unit in for service, get's a good star for useful information!