Comments on: Dell Inspiron Mini’s Guts Reveal Upgrade Opportunities

By: Michelle W

Michelle W — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:41:20 +0000

I have the Dell Mini 9 and I installed the Kingston 2GB PC2-6400 and I’m still getting the virtual memory and OS memory low messages. Can someone please tell me what to do? My computer properties are showing 1.99 GB of RAM, so my computer is recognizing the card. Anyone?

By: UpgradeJunkie

UpgradeJunkie — Wed, 05 May 2010 12:13:16 +0000

I have Dell Inspiron Mini. I have always struggled to run videos on it, there is delay on some HQ. I would like to upgrade the mini to get higher speed i7 or duo. Is it possible? If so how.
I see RAM replacement here. I don’t think it can help beyond a certain point.

By: Burk

Burk — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:57:04 +0000

@mel

Actually, as long as you don’t break anything you will never void your warranty by taking it apart. You can strip the whole thing and reassemble, it will still be under warranty. I can’t even find a warranty seal on mine.

@Austen

Mydigitaldiscount.com has three Runcore SSDs sized 32gb, 64gb, and 128gb that fit wonderfully in the Mini 9/Vostro. I upgraded to the 32gb a few months back and it was very easy. There are a bunch of “how to” videos available on youtube and jkkmobile if you are uneasy about doing it yourself.

By: Austen

Austen — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:18:04 +0000

So, has anyone found a 16GB ssd that does fit?

By: mel

mel — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:43:28 +0000

just buy one and when I want to upgrade the RAM I have to bring mine to the service center. They said it will break the warranty seal so I shouldn’t just open the case myself.

By: colten

colten — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:50:27 +0000

The WWAN slot will not take mini PCIe SSD HDD. If you put your SSD HDD into that slot, it won’t boot.

By: jan

jan — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:13:52 +0000

Maybe, if you buy the Kingston 4GB 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134685

Not cheap though ($315)

By: admin

admin — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:04:09 +0000

Only to 2GB

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:28:09 +0000

Can the Dell Mini Inspiron only be upgraded to 2 gb RAM or can I go to a 4 gb?

By: Daniel K

Daniel K — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:01:23 +0000

Nick,

I just got one of the new ones and took a look inside. It seems I have the newer type of motherboard with the WWAN card slot removed. All they took off was the minipci header, and I bet if you could find some somewhere, you could easily solder it back on and see if the bus is still active. Thats what I plan to do at least.