The HP Mini 311 (or Compaq Mini 311C in Europe) comes with 1GB of RAM soldered to the motherboard. At first glance, that might make this NVIDIA ION-powered laptop a bit less attractive, since it somewhat limits your upgrade options. But Blogeee reports there’s good news: There is another RAM slot that users can take advantage of to upgrade the RAM.
All you have to do is pop open the back and slide in a 2GB module to upgrade the memory to 3GB.
That makes the HP Mini 311 one of the most versatile low cost 11.6 inch mini-laptops around thanks to its low power Atom processor, 6 hour battery life, NVIDIA ION graphics, and even Hackintoshability.
from USA or UK? cause im sure the UK version you can’t upgrade? please let me know if that is possible? :S just bought one 😀 waiting for delivery.
I’ve got 2GB of Kingston SODIMM already ordered for my 311. The hard-drive lifts out relatively easy, too. I think empty slot next to the hard-drive is for a cellular card.
The 3GB RAM makes me wonder all the more if the Mini 311 will do a good job running Google SketchUp. SketchUp is picky about the GPU it needs to run on, but is reported to run well on a MacBook which has the same Nvidia GeForce 9400M integrated GPU used in the Mini 311’s ION. But the MacBook has a much more powerful CPU (and higher cost) than the Mini 311.