Does your laptop computer have problems multi-tasking? Do programs like Photoshop and Sony Vegas crawl on your laptop computer? The solution to your woes could be adding more memory. With today's programs require more than just 1GB of memory. Before you go through with upgrading your computers memory supply you need to do some research. First you need to find out if your using a 32-bit or 64-bit operating system, because a 32-bit computer can only recognize under 4GB of memory and 64-bit recognizes more than that. Other things to look up... What type of memory your motherboard or laptop supports i.e. DDR, DDR2, DDR3 How much memory you already have just go into the systems information page through the "Control Panel" Check how many open slots you have and if you don't have any check which memory sticks you want to replace. Where you can find memory for cheap... eBay - If your going to buy any type of laptop parts online it's a good idea to check eBay out to compare before making purchase. Frys is good for both online and offline purchases, if you have one near you make sure to go in and check it out to see if anything is on sale. NewEgg and TigerDirect both sites are pretty similar but sometimes prices for a certain laptop part are lower on NewEgg than on TigerDirect this goes vice versa. OfficeDepot people often forget about this place but it's a good place to find a sale on memory. Best Buy there selection is nothing like NewEgg, TigerDirect, Frys or eBay but they don't solely specialize on computer parts so don't expect them to carry much DDR memory. Installing new memory... Installing memory into your laptop computer is a very simple process. All you have to do is open the latch below your laptop computer and slip the RAM or memory stick inside an open slot or remove memory and put the new ones into the slots. There are directions on the packeging of the memory if you have any difficulties.About the Author: