Looking for Compatible Memory

Catfan67

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Hello. I have an old laptop (from 2006?) running Ubuntu, and I want to keep its operating system up-to-date. However, there is so little memory (486.1 MiB) that the current installation (Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr) is really slow and tends to freeze. I am pretty sure that upgrading to 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus will only make things worse. I have an idea of a memory stick I want to get, and I also have pictures of the current memory. The first two links are for pictures of my current memory, and the third is of the stick I am hoping to get instead:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6xjvMwEx0LcaUdyV1F5ZFd3U28
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6xjvMwEx0LcSzExclQ4RnB5Tnc
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820516184&cm_re=ddr2_667_laptop-_-20-516-184-_-Product

Is the proposed RAM going to work, or should I find something else? Does anyone have any suggestions (hopefully under $30, 2GB should be fine) as to what I should use? Should I share any more information? Thanks in advance.
 

Andrewthegreat

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It is highly unlikely that updating to 16.04 will make things worse, operating systems are updated to make things faster.
But the proposed ram should work anyway as long as your motherboard and CPU supports it
 

Jan_26

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It's impossible to tell like this. Can you find out specific model of your laptop? I find it a bit suspicious it says "GDDR2" on the sticker... normally when you have GDDR, it means graphic memory, not the system one. While the shape looks like normal SO-DIMM. If it is normal SO-DIMM, then the chance your selected newegg module would run is decent, but it still needs to be checked with your laptop manual (limits on max module size, and preferably compatibility list).