Just looking for advice/opinion. I bought from ebay, what i thought was an x220 Thinkpad with 8G of RAM…turned out only to have 4. I left a bad review but will keep the machine. I put Arch/Sway anyway.

I want to add RAM…i think it can go up to 16. I looked on line and i think it would be about $50 to buy the memory…so i thought o would find an online tutorial and add the memory myself…is this a bad idea?

  • toneverends@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 years ago

    No such thing as a 12GB stick. You could start with adding an 8GB, then in the future replace the 4 with another 8. (Assuming it’s not 2+2 in there currently).

    • ree@lemmy.ml
      3·
      3 years ago

      I’m running my x220 with 4+8 (12gb) and there is no issues :)

      I rarely require more than 8gb but sometime do memory intensive job and it’s stable, the CPU is more of a bottleneck.

      Iirc it’s possible to run 2x16gb but there is some BIOS trickery involved.