How many RAM slots in Lenovo U430 red i5 8gb?
Added (1). I want to buy this ultrabook in red but not sure if i can still upgrade the ram in the future? Is this the case when the ram is integrated into the machine with one slot free, or there are two slots with one of them already occupied with a ram module?
Not really sure? But if it already has 8 GB of ram I'm thinking that is the maximum it can handle. That is the case with most laptops. Now this desktop I'm on here now can handle up to 32 GB. It has 12 GB. But with most laptops it's a different story.
The U430 has a single stick of RAM and is 1x8GB maximum.
There have been issues of people not getting the right 8GB stick in upgrading themselves from 4 to 8GB.
There's no soldered ram on the motherboard for the U430
Lenovo Ideapad product line is geared to standardization in an attempt to provide a good quality well featured product at a very fair price.
Be aware that the U suffix CPUs are designed to be lower power and clock settings and therefore lower performance but better on battery life and heat than M suffix CPUs. The i7 U suffix CPUs are also dual core like i5's and are generally just additional cache memory and a higher clock setting compared with similar i5's. Running at lower power, the laptop brands use either lower performance lighter in weight smaller in size batteries or get much longer running times on bigger batteries. You can't judge claimed "hours" of running, but instead need watt hours or amp hours of battery and compare similar CPU/Graphics specs systems.
CPU benchmarking:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/...u_list.php
So, the 8GB ram is not upgradable, but rarely necessary to upgrade as only useful in video editing.
8GB is plenty for everyday use and any gaming. Single channel (one stick) is about an 8% reduction in ram performance(not system performance) compared to equal specs in dual channel (2x4GB of same stick parameters).