Rob R
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Registered: 31st May 03
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Well I have a Sony Vaio that I bought from PC World August 2008. Was going to buy a new laptop to replace it but thought I'd upgrade this one instead to boast some performance increases.
3 main things I will be doing will be...
Ram upgrade - currently has 2GB installed, just purchashed 4GB from Crucial for £47 delivered.
Hard Drive - fitted at the moment is a 250gb SATAII hdd which was full of the usual PC World shite and Sony's own programmes and has never been formatted (lazy I know!) This will be getting replaced by a OCZ 60GB Vertex 2E SSD. Only use the laptop for internet and iTunes so don't need 1TB of storage space!
Windows 7 - fresh install of Windows should liven things up. It has Vista installed at the moment so 7 should be a nice upgrade over it.
Any other reccomendations? Been trying to find out if I can upgrade the CPU but with the mobo being 2.5 years old I have no idea what chipsets it will support 
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Cavey
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Registered: 11th Nov 02
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Make sure you get 64bit windows 7 (32 bit only recognises 3gb or RAM, I think) I know that was true on Vista anyway, so i'm guessing it'll be the same with 7
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Sam
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Correct Cavey.
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Rob R
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Didn't one of the Vista service packs enable it to read more than 3GB of ram once it's installed?
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pow
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32 bit arcitecture can only allocated 3.2GB of RAM anyway, even if it can see more.
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Rob R
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Ok cheers for that. Won't be on Vista for long so wont cause me that much agro
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