Memory upgrade on a Dell Inspiron 1501
Posted on 05. Aug, 2008 by miguel in technology
Inspiron 1501 was (no longer available) one of the best options if looking for a good price/performance laptop. I bought one a year ago. It was cheap and offered me all the basic features that I was looking for.
Firstly I only used it as a normal laptop, just to work away. But five months ago I started to work with it as my daily use computer. I attach it to a wireless keyboard+mouse combo and a widescreen monitor when at home. It works great but the daily tasks have revealed an insuficient RAM memory configuration. So I’ve recently made an easy upgrade.
- Buy memory at Dell Store (United States – Spain) or Newegg.
If looking for a 2 GB configuration you’ve to order 2 x 1 GB (matched pairs of modules). - Flip over your laptop and open the RAM cover (view).
Take out the battery too. - Get rid of the old modules (view).
- Insert your new memory (view).
- Check it and enjoy (view).
vedad
Nov 13th, 2008
I have DELL Inspiron 1501.Can I put 4 GB of RAM? 2×2 GB ?
miguel
Jan 11th, 2009
A Dell Inspiron 1501 can be configured with up to 2GB (DDR2 533MHz). You can find all the specs for 1501 on this page.
varepsilon
Jan 19th, 2010
Thank you for your article! It was really helpful.