Memory upgrade for HP Mini 210

[Mad Professor]

Good Day All.

I am looking for some advice with regarding to memory upgrades for my wife's HP Mini 210-2006sa.

As stock this unit has a single 1GB stick of DDR3 SODMIM.

Looking on HP's web site it says you can only have a max of 2GB ram.

But can anyone tell me if this is a hardware or software limitation.

I have read that the preloaded "Windows 7 Starter" has a memory limitation of 2GB, but I don't know about hardware wise.

I would love to be able to install 4GB ram, as 1GB is no good for windows 7, and 2GB is just about bareable.

Thanks for your time.

Best Regards.

 

[cmndr_andi]

Looking at the HP website it says the netbook only has one RAM slot, and that slot only supports up to 2GB. This sounds like a hardware limit to me and the crucial website seems to confirm this with a similar MSI 210 netbook.

Each memory slot can hold DDR3 PC3-8500, DDR3 PC3-10600 with a maximum of 2GB per slot.*

I would suggest upgrading the RAM to a cheap SODIMM 1333MHz 2GB kit from a decent brand. As you say, 1GB is really not enough for win 7 and 2GB will be a lot better (though probably not ideal).