I purchased the inspiron 6000 4 years ago. It has an intel centrino processor and only 512 mb of ram. Im thinking about upgrading it a little bit. First of all does anyone know a proper way to install the ream? Also 512 mb of ram and 2gb of ram make a significant difference since it the the intel centrino processor?

thanks in advance

get a new laptop

well i bought this laptop for more than $1000 so i dont want to just throw it away

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins6000/EN/sm/upgrades.htm#wp999869

should be easy... and more RAM should make a difference.. it would be strange if it didn't.. everything should run smoother..

That's the problem with laptops as gaming machines-- they're expensive and hard to upgrade.

You can add more ram, but a $1000 laptop probably doesn't have the best processor and graphics card so you're screwed there.  Have fun trying to find an affordable graphics card and trying to upgrade the processor.

Seriously, you're just better off getting a new laptop/PC if you want an upgrade that badly.

my laptop is not a gaming PC it is just something i do work on. my desktop is my gaming PC

@twestern.. well maybe he doesn't need it for gaming... just to surf to VGChartz from his bed... you know those FLASH widgets eat memory like there is no tomorrow..

Ah, then what's the trouble with it?  What do you use on it?

If you're just using Word and things like that and it's being slow enough that you think upgrading will help, it probably won't help a lot.  Just giving it a good cleaning/optimizing and removing crap would probably help more than ram.

If you're using things that actually need power, it will help some but it won't make it like new again.  Generally just optimizing everything helps more than just adding ram (though that does help too).

I'm assuming you have XP, or at least you better have XP with that laptop, a good reformatting every 4-5 years does wonders.

You could try Linux? Thats probably the best thing, even though I hate linux, I guess that means I hate you as im suggesting Linux. Sorry.

Well, you could like the guy above try a linux. Seriously, the only thing i think windows is the best is for gaming, for the rest Mac and Linux are far better, mainly duo security.