upgrade memory and hard disk?

[aslan]

hi guys.

T42 2379 RFU is my recent one: P M 745(1.8GHz), 512MB RAM, 60GB 5400rpm HD

I saw ibm web site on hard drive/ memory options for upgrading.

According to this options the max. hd is 100gb 5400 rpm. What happens if I upgrade 100gb 7200rpm?- much noise? not much differnece comparing to 100gb 5400rpm?

I want to know what are the max. size of memory and hard disk for upgrading T42.

Could you tell me about this and advise me, please? I mainly do ms office, surfing the webs, and see movies with this machine. I will not spend money and time if it is does not show any differences after upgrading. I will buy a new model some stage in future.

thanks

[christopher_wolf]

The most memory you can get in a T4X Thinkpad is 2GB; you can go as high as you want for the drive space as long as it is a PATA drive and not SATA.

[kam_]

A side note.. why on earth do thinpad's use a SATA to PATA bridge? Is there no such thing as a SATA laptop hard drive, or was the decision made way back, when that was the case?

It just seems a bit insane to do it that way, when clearly your upper limit is going to be that of the PATA standard and not SATA.

[djspl]

hi guys.

T42 2379 RFU is my recent one: P M 745(1.8GHz), 512MB RAM, 60GB 5400rpm HD

I saw ibm web site on hard drive/ memory options for upgrading.

According to this options the max. hd is 100gb 5400 rpm. What happens if I upgrade 100gb 7200rpm?- much noise? not much differnece comparing to 100gb 5400rpm?

I want to know what are the max. size of memory and hard disk for upgrading T42.

Could you tell me about this and advise me, please? I mainly do ms office, surfing the webs, and see movies with this machine. I will not spend money and time if it is does not show any differences after upgrading. I will buy a new model some stage in future.

thanks

for what you do with your computer adding ram and a fatser hard disk will not be worth it.
1. More ram is required when your computer runs out of the installed ram. Word, surfing and watching DVDs won't use all of your 512MB (assuming your computer doesn't use 350MB of ram at startup for just Windows).

Check your task manager's performance tab while you are doing what you do. Look at the "Commit Charge" section. Those are your ram usage stats since your last re-start. Current total = how much you are using now, peak = how much your computer needed at it's heaviest time, since the last re-start. This is Windows + program usage. If you are near or over 512000 (=512MB) then you would benefit from more ram. Despite what people think, stacking a computer with lots of ram does nothing for a computer's speed unless they are using applications that need it. Having an excess of ram while running Word gets you nothing.

2. A faster hard drive will give you improved boot times, but Word, surfing and DVDs don't rely on long hard drive reads and writes so spending money on a 7200 rpm will show minimal improvements once Windows is loaded.