How To Improve The Memory On A Inspiron 2650?

Question

I have an old Inspiron 2650. It has a max of 16GB, but I only have less then 4GB left. Any ideas of how to boost the memory on this? I can't really delete any programs nor do I have the money to buy a external memory hard-drive or a new laptop.

Help?

Answer 1

You have the memory confused with your hard drive size. memory is measured in MB(megabytes)and GB(gigabytes) older computers might have as little as 128 mb(or less on super old ones ) to 4 or even 8 GB on newer ones.   That's a whole other thing.   You have 4 GB of hard drive capacity left.  might want to try the disk cleanup feature to rid it of old temp files that aren't needed. the only other option is to buy a bigger internal/external drive.  No way around it. remember the program you run (like windows XP) takes up like 5 or 6 GB on it's own ,not counting any other programs and software.

Answer 2

You are mixing two different pieces of hardware. the 16gb you speak of is harddrive space. Which I assume is a 20gb harddrive.

Memory is a small card with flat pins. if you have a 20gb harddrive I'd guess you have about 128-256 mb of memory.

They are not the same.

If you can't delete anything then you are stuck. Your only options are to delete or buy a new harddrive.

Answer 3

Do you mean hard drive space?  Memory is the Random Access Memory which makes programs run faster and you can run more of them at a time.  If you mean hard drive space, that is the room where you store your documents, songs, videos, programs, etc. and to upgrade that on a laptop is difficult.  The easiest way would be to buy an external hard drive.  

Answer 4

If you need more space you can take it to a computer repair shop or Tech and can put in a new hard drive (whatever size you want up till 350 GB).