Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!sdcc6!beowulf!schraudo From: schraudo@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Nici Schraudolph) Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops Subject: Re: More on the CF-150B Message-ID: Date: 5 Mar 91 04:54:52 GMT References: <6576@celery15.UUCP> <1991Feb23.053309.1081@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <9723@uwm.edu> Sender: news@sdcc6.ucsd.edu Distribution: comp.sys.laptops Lines: 28 anthony@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes: >In article <1991Feb23.053309.1081@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> jbaron@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeffrey Baron) writes: >>But, as always, I have more questions. Namely, according to computer shopper, >>the CF-170 has a SIMM slot with which you can add a meg of memory. I don't >>like tearing apart laptops unless I know what I am going to find in them. >>Did they do the same thing with the CF-150/Bs? Is a 1.6 meg laptop only >>$39 away? >Even if this is a standard SIMM socket, you probably wouldn't want to >stick one of those $39 SIMMs in it. Those are DRAMs, and consume >plenty of power which would drain your battery much more quickly than >than a static RAM SIMM would, if available. The non-volitile RAM drive >might last only hours instead of weeks. On the other hand, the RAM >expansion probably isn't too expensive from Panasonic. Well... is $350 expensive enough? Looks like a rip-off to me -- anybody know how much 1MB static RAM usually costs? If someone has any idea how to build your own CF150B RAM expansion, I'd really like to hear from you! With this price differential, there might even be some small back alley electronics store that make their own... any leads appreciated. -- Nicol N. Schraudolph, CSE Dept. | "I don't know about your dreams, but mine Univ. of California, San Diego | are sort of hackney: same thing night after La Jolla, CA 92093-0114, U.S.A. | night, just this repetitive. And the color nici%cs@ucsd.{edu,bitnet,uucp} | is really bad..." - Laurie Anderson.