Where to buy memory?

[Gaddabout]

So after watching three PCs in my house develop fatal diseases, I whipped out the trusty 4-year-old iBook. This thing has been through hell -- previous owner slipped and dropped it 15 feet off a staircase, cracked the case, but it continued to run beautifully right up until a couple of weeks ago. I can't be sure, but I think my wife's iPod (whose hard drive is toast) may have blown up the iBook.

In desperation we paid way too much for a nice new Dell laptop with Vista. Problem is the one we got came with 466 MB. Thing operates about as fast as my old x386 the first time I installed Windows on it. It's slooooooooow

I'm thinking the problem is entirely about memory, but I don't know enough about memory sticks to know what brands to buy. I know just enough to know there are some rip-off artists making cheap memory sticks. I'd like to stick with a quality name, I just don't know any. Any suggestions?

I'd like to buy a gig for a Dell Inspiron 1501/AMD Sempron.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

Online.

try Newegg.com

 

[BillsCarnage]

newegg.com
zipzoomfly.com
tigerdirect.com

 

[nathan]

Based on your computer, you need DDR2-533 (PC2-4200) SODIMM.

 

[Cardinals.Ken]

Try www.pricewatch.com

It'll give you all the lowest priecs on the interenet.

 

[asudevil83]

vista is a resource hog....so its probable that the lack of memory is killing it. you really need AT LEAST a gig of ram for vista.

newegg or zipzoomfly are my trusted places.

 

[Ryanwb]

Based on your computer, you need DDR2-533 (PC2-4200) SODIMM.

I'm not sure of the speed that I have, but I have 2 1GB DDR2 SODIMMs that I could part with very cheaply. I upgraded my laptop out of the box to 4 GB and obviously don't need these. They were literally never used, maybe by the factory to test the unit

 

[SunDevilDon]

definitely go with http://www.newegg.com

They are a great company and I forget the brand I bought, but I have purchases 4 1 gig sticks for my macbook and imac in the past, been fine for over a year.

Think it might have been "Patriot"

 

[KloD]

I often use www.crucial.com to scan the sys and find out max ram speed and amount for each machine and order from newegg.com. I wouldn't use under 2gig for Vista, but I max out my machines to 4gig.

The other problem is the Sempron processor. It's AMD's version of the Celeron. It's a low end processor.

 

[Gaddabout]

I ended up buying a 1 GB DIMM off of ebay. Cost me $28 after shipping. Was brand new and this sucker hums just fine new with a little over 1.5 GB of memory. We're not gamers or anything, so this thing works great for an Internet and MP3 machine.