Board 8 > how easy is it to move RAM from one laptop to another?

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quick story - a while back I accidentally broke my girlfriend's laptop. It still mostly works, but I bent the heating metal thingy and half of her screen doesn't work. It's about 2 years old, but she really liked the model and everything, so we're looking into buying a newer version of the same model. Both laptops use DDR3 RAM, so that's not an issue I think. The one I broke had 8 GB of RAM, andd the new one will come with 4. I'm cheap so I want to try to save money and I was thinking maybe I could move 4 GB from the old laptop to the new one. I don't know a whole bunch about computers, so any advice will probably help.

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~Peaf~
"Later that day, I f***ed a panda." - PSO

not hard at all. Usually there are two white clamps that you open up, pull the piece of ram out of the slot, and then go from there.

Adding ram is usually the most cost effective way to upgrade your PC, and its also very easy to do.

Assuming the second laptop has a free slot... Five minutes max. Also, if the second laptop is 32bit then you are already maxed anyway.

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-Merc

you should try downloading some RAM instead

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Mang, that downloadable RAM! Works like twice as good as normal RAM.

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both laptops are 64bit

I'm glad this won't be too hard

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~Peaf~
"Later that day, I f***ed a panda." - PSO