I bought a SL400 2743QPA yesterday and am liking it so far. The laptop has a intel on board graphics chipset. I've installed 64 bit Windows 7 on it. The laptop came with 2 x 1GB transcend RAM. I wish to upgrade it to 4GB, which I believe is the maximum this will support.
1) The salesperson told me that it will support up to 8GB (2 x 4GB). Is that true? Do I need to do a bios update to enable that?
2) The salesperson also mentioned that I can only use the transcend brand RAM sold by lenovo ($150 per 2GB stick) and third party RAM by companies such as kingston would not work. But here on the forums, I see many people using Kingston RAM on their machines so I am skeptical about her statement but would like to confirm.
3) If I decide to upgrade on my own, can I use the generic Kingston Notebook valueRAM (KVR-****) or should I buy the specific model of kingston ram recommended on kingston.com (KT-****)?
4) Is there any difference between using Kingston, Transcend or Crucial for performance reasons?
Thank you for reading.
