[rescue] Need somethings for an old Dell Laptop

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Robert Novak <rnovak at indyramp.com>
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" By the way, I have not tried this with a C640, but the C840 (same
" 845MP chipset and similar processors) works with 2GB of RAM. It's not
" supported or documented by Dell, but I have at least one C840 running
" with two DDR2700 1GB sodimms here. It takes longer to boot of course,
" but it can give a bit more life and headroom to your machine if it
" works.
" 
" (I wrote about my memory adventures at
" http://rsts11.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/rsts11-laptop-memory-above-and-beyond/
" if you'd like to take a look.)

you don't mention it, but this phenom is well known among apple
machines, and the trick is the correct geometry/density.  generally at
any size there are two chip densities.  so if the mem controller can
handle both 16 x 16M and 8 x 32M sticks, then it can also handle 16 x
32M...  but they'll never advertise it for fear that some moron luser
will try some other 512M geometry and sue when they don't work.
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