Adding laptop RAM to a desktop?

[TheKeir]

I am getting a desktop with 4gb RAM, and I currently have a laptop with broken HDD & motherboard. The laptop's RAM is fine though. I would like to add the laptop RAM (4gb) to the desktop when it arrives, but as I understand it laptop RAM is different from desktop RAM, except in some chunky notebooks.

So, is the RAM in my laptop compatible with a desktop? This is as far as I can get through finding its specs on the internet.

Name: ACER 7535G

"System memory
• Dual-Channel SDRAM support
• Up to 2 GB of DDR2 667 MHz memory, upgradeable to 4 GB using two soDIMM modules"

I've also found this on Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/ACER-Aspire-7535G-RAM-Memory/dp/B0047LUN0U but the picture doesn't look like the RAM inside my laptop from what I remember (the accessible part on the back of the laptop, where you open it up, has jammed so I cant see without breaking the laptop's back, which I don't want to do just yet.

DDR2 and 667 are certainly not what desktops usually run at this moment in time, but is that just 'cause the laptop is old?

 

[Wozza63]

no, laptop memory is different size, your memory there is also DDR2 and a completely different speed so definitely not

everything in a laptop is much smaller than a desktop

 

[TheKeir]

As I presumed. It was just that a friend told me that some more heavyweight laptops use normal RAM.

Thanks

 

[Wozza63]

maybe, but those would be giant laptops, probably bigger than the viper, laptop RAM is so advanced now, there isnt any need to include full size RAM as it isnt the bottleneck

 

[TheKeir]

Ah ok. Well, thanks anyway ^_^

 

[Music Guy123]

DDR2 isn't old, my 2 year old laptop has it (a fast version) but has it. As before, no it isn't compatible!

 

[TheKeir]

has it but has it

Tautology much?

 

[Music Guy123]

All right, all right!

 

[NMEBowen]

ddr2 is quite old now when you thing pretty much any newer pc now uses ddr3 and most new graphics cards are using ddr5 but were talking about pc tech now if you bought something new last month its classed as old due to the speed the tech moves at.

 

[Wozza63]

graphics ram is different, it has had to advance much quicker due to graphics advancing much quicker, whereas regular RAM can just take its time in releasing a new one as it will last longer