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    Quote Originally Posted by juskom95 View Post
    An SSD will run you some money (but they are NICE).

    It looks like it is a standard 2.5" hard drive, not the slim form.

    Here's what's involved:

    https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Asus+X5...lacement/51969
    You can probably upgrade to a single stick of 8gb RAM

    http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/compat...or/ASUS/x550la
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    Quote Originally Posted by Innkeeper View Post
    Problem with laptops they may not have space for additional memory, when I replaced the regular drive with a SSD for a boot drive there was an empty bay for the old drive for storage space, and you can get a 1-4 TB external drive from like $40-120 to use as an anything else storage. I used them for movies on my last deployment, and for everything else now.
    Some ship with thin drives now, 7mm I think it is.
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    https://www.hsds.sr/productdisplay/a...x555l-hi31103j

    I watched another video where the guy used a credit card to open the unit up

    I assembled a desktop in 1996 when Pentium 200 was the rage

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    Quote Originally Posted by juskom95 View Post
    You can probably upgrade to a single stick of 8gb RAM

    http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/compat...or/ASUS/x550la
    Very true I did not think that far out of the box.....I am taking a break from study for my EMT course, brain burn out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Innkeeper View Post
    Very true I did not think that far out of the box.....I am taking a break from study for my EMT course, brain burn out.
    Meh. This is my job.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BucketBack View Post
    https://www.hsds.sr/productdisplay/a...x555l-hi31103j

    I watched another video where the guy used a credit card to open the unit up

    I assembled a desktop in 1996 when Pentium 200 was the rage
    I used a small screwdriver or my fingernails on the systems I've worked with.
    "Every person’s life is theirs by right. An individual’s life can and must belong only to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave. No one can deny another person their right to their life, nor seize by force what is produced by someone else, because that is stealing their means to sustain their life. It is treason against mankind to hold a knife to a man’s throat and dictate how he must live his life."



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    I had already downloaded the crucial tool to find out what was compatible

    Glad to see someone else knows about them. I was thinking maybe I D/L some malware or something

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    Quote Originally Posted by BucketBack View Post
    I had already downloaded the crucial tool to find out what was compatible

    Glad to see someone else knows about them. I was thinking maybe I D/L some malware or something
    I'm lazy when it comes to memory, Crucial makes it easy to find the right type/speed. Then I usually shop around for a better price!
    "Every person’s life is theirs by right. An individual’s life can and must belong only to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave. No one can deny another person their right to their life, nor seize by force what is produced by someone else, because that is stealing their means to sustain their life. It is treason against mankind to hold a knife to a man’s throat and dictate how he must live his life."



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