[GTALUG] cheap as dirt old notebooks

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I have a thinkpad x260 with 1 slot and max 16gb per the specs. But after reading online I went ahead and stuck a 32gb in there and it seems to work fine. 
I didn't do anything special to set it up or test it tho. 


On September 27, 2024 12:55:54 AM EDT, Kevin Cozens via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>On 2024-09-26 23:31, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
>> The Dell Latitude 3310 looks a little tasty:
>> <https://www.dellrefurbished.ca/item/dell-latitude-3310-no-os-000004/dell-latitude-3310-no-os/1.html>
>> 
>> - $179 - 25% + shipping + tax (cheap as a Raspberry Pi 5 system)
>> - OK CPU i5-8265U
>> - Latitude line is a business line, so should be well made
>> - only cosmetic grade B
>> - no OS license.  But we have Linux
>> - I'm guessing that it has an open SoDIMM slot to add a second 8G, but I
>>    haven't   checked
>> - screen resolution is only 1366 x 768
>> - 100 day warrranty
>
>The full specs are here:
>https://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/dell-tablets/13-2-in-1-3310/spd/latitude-13-3310-2-in-1-laptop
>
>It mentions being able to have 16GB of RAM. Based on that page it only has a single SODIMM slot.
>
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>
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