Acer TravelMate B117-M-C2RM Upgradeable?

jollero
jollero Member Posts: 4 New User
edited March 2023 in 2017 Archives

It's well known fact this a slow netbook (we discovered the hard way with MS Office). Thats in the past.

 

We would like to upgrade this laptop. Perhaps memory and hard disk. I heard some acer netbooks are not upgradeable.

 

Our question is, what kind of upgrades can we do for this machine?

  • Can we add more memory? Does it have slots for it?
  •  Can we upgrade the hard disk? Maybe an SSD?

Thanks to letting us know. The world of netbooks are strange for us right now especially with the emergence of integrated memory types.

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  • jollero
    jollero Member Posts: 4 New User

    I found these specs on a store. I think this indicates that the memory is built in and there is no slots for any additions.

     

    2GB of onboard DDR3L system memory

  • jollero
    jollero Member Posts: 4 New User

    But how about the hard disk? It's currently a 5400 RPM disk. Can I have it serviced and replaced with a SSD form of a disk? Will this make it a bit faster?

  • brummyfan2
    brummyfan2 ACE Posts: 28,077 Trailblazer
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    Hi,

    Yes, you can upgrade to a SSD and yes it will speed up your laptop.

  • jollero
    jollero Member Posts: 4 New User

    That is good to know that we can do that. The question now, since I have no experience in this, is that how much performance gain to we get? Is it significant enough to shell out for the cost of a new SSD disk?