Upgrade memory ThinkPad G40

Hello

I hope this is the right place to ask some Q on the IBM thinkpad G40... My son bought a second hand G40 a few years back. He had / has only 256 MB of memory. Now I want to improve the memory and I scanned the relevant web pages of Lenovo. Apparently the memory should be PC2100 or PC2700 may be due to the availability of PC2100? (DDR)

Now a run on this laptop cpu - z indicates the memory is PC2300 (142 Mhz), so what gives? This was put in to be the good side or?

and an extra Q... memory modules can be mixed? IE add a 512 MB PC2100 sodimm for 768 M? or I have to delete the original 256M and go for 2 x 512M?

TIA

Imbsysop

You can certainly plug 1 additional GB. And what a difference it will make...

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