You may know that my lad and his family have just moved to Edmonton.

His laptop is a couple of years old now and is struggling big time to cope with Skype.

Can you point us in the right direction for getting some additional memory (he has only got 512mb). No doubt there are and good and bad places but he hasn't sussed them yet.

Thanks in advance

Paul

www.crucial.com

Very good reliable and affordable.

He can buy additional memory at Future Shop or Best Buy and either one will install/configure it for a small fee.

I've used www.ncix.com.

However, you may find your local computer store is just as cheap as online stores, particularly if you're just buying some RAM; shipping costs probably eat up any savings.

Tiger Direct is pretty good, however you'd have to make sure it can take more memory first.

Agree with the above post about delivery charges eating up cost savings!

Check the wiki http://britishexpats.com/wiki/Shoppi...and_Technology for some more options.

I've used Canada Computers and Infonec, and they both have flat-rate delivery charges.

I agree that Crucial is a good place to start, particularly if you do not want to take your laptop apart to find out the memory config.

They have a rather nice app that checks your memory set up, and suggests what memory to get.

GW

A couple of year old laptop with 512MB ram should be able to run Skype fine, it's not exactly a high resource application. I'd suggest that the problem lies elsewhere rather than the hardware.

What's your internet set up?

i vote crucial with their advisor tool and no quibble money guarantee...
but, yes, 512mb in an older laptop should be plenty.

Don't forget peeps...you now have Newegg in Canada..I we had one in the UK... http://www.newegg.ca/ ...

Neweggs arrival in Canada was and possibly still is a colossal bust.

Read from post number 192 onwards.

http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/s...newegg&page=13

WOW!! Steve...no need to go any further then 210......many of my gaming buds in the U.S tell me that newegg are the best thing since slice bread..not so in Canada from what I read on them posts...

Yeh it was a huge disappointment.

I'd seen there U.S. prices and was so looking forward to them coming to Canada and then that.

Hopefully they'll figure it out at some point but I'm not holding my breath.

I agree too. Mine has 512 and runs Skype fine, maybe try defragment, check for spyware etc... it should run Skype easily!

Probably just needs a good clean up, and tons of internet temp files deleting.

Best of luck

Y