Lenovo T440p - RAM Upgrade (1st time upgrading)

jon-k

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Jan 3, 2014
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Hi all,

I'm about to purchase a new T440p and wanted to upgrade the RAM immediately to 16GB.

I found the below site which tells me I have 2 DIMM slots and the laptop can either take DDR3 PC3-12800 or DDR3 PC3-14900 type RAM. Which one is better? Can anyone confirm if this info is correct? I couldn't find much info on Lenovo's websites or through googling.

http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.aspx?model=ThinkPad%20T440p

Sorry if I sound like an idiot, I've never upgraded RAM myself before, so just want some direction as to the best brand and what type of RAM + do I buy 1 or 2 sticks?

The base model comes with 4GB (I'm assuming 1 stick) but if I were to upgrade to 8GB through Lenovo, would they give me 2 4GB sticks or 1 8GB stick?

Thanks!!