can i upgrade my laptop? URGENT PLEASE

i have a lenovo 3000 v100 laptop with a INTEL T2400 @ 1.83GHz that i would like to upgrade a little bit. oh yeah, running XP pro SP3.

am i able to stick in...

4 gigs of ram, i'm thinking of getting 2 sticks of 2gig kingston DDR2 ram.
(there are 2 sticks of 512MB at the moment)

a new HDD, want to get a 2.5" 320gig Seagate or Western Digital HDD. they are all a common size right? so it will fit right?
(there is a 2.5" 100Gig used at the moment)


first time upgrading a laptop and its much easier than i thought as its all below behind a cover or two, just not sure of components in a laptop.

thanks for your answers!

I think you can use that HDD, but I'm not positive since I've never tried it, but, according to THIS site it will only go up to 2gig of ram..

FWIW: I just saw 500GB laptop hard drives at newegg.com. Never too much storage capability on a laptop, IMO.

Louis

One consideration you may want to think about is the power consumption of a hdd with the faster RPM. Most laptops come with the slower 5400 RPM rather than the 7200 RPM as these require less power to operate. If you use your battery a lot then this could make a difference in the amp hours available, the larger drives will also have longer seek time which also increases the power usage.

Because you computer has a maximum of 1GB or RAM per slot the 4GB figure that you wanted is a moot point. But just for edification purposes, a 32-bit operating system will only recognize about 3.5GB of 4GB. In order to use the total 4GB you would need to have a 64-bit operating system.

thanks for that link!
why would they say max ram is only 2gig when XP supports 4gig (3.5gig)?????
and even better, why would they make a laptop to take only 1gig per slot, sooooo annoying


yup, 500 gig 2.5" drives are out but still a tad expensive, will stick to the 320 gig for now, and yes, will get the 5400RPM as you suggested, should save on some battery thanks!

The 2GB figure is what the motherboard will support, it doesn't matter what the operating system will support if the motherboard can't support it.

ended up getting 2 sticks of 1 gig kingston notebook ram, everything works great now!!
thanks everyone!!

ps, that is the max that my notebook takes