Acer Aspire 5673WLMI: Memory Upgrade 3GB

Acer Aspire 5673WLMI: Upgrading to 3GB Memory
Acer 5670 Series

Want to share my upgrade experience of Memory and HDD on a old Laptop Acer Aspire 5673 WLMI which I purchased in 2006.

At that time somewhere in Sep 2006, it's got quite good features like

Core Duo T2400 / 1.83 GHz - Centrino Duo
RAM 1 GB
HDD 120 GB
DVD RW (+R DL) / DVD-RAM
Mobility Radeon X1400 HyperMemory up to 512MB
Gigabit Ethernet - WLAN: 802.11a/b/g
Bluetooth 2.0 EDR
Win XP Home
15.4" Widescreen TFT 1280 x 800 (WXGA)
Camera 1.3 MEGA
Acer Bluetooth VOIP Phone

Upgrades on Acer Aspire 5673WLMI (5670 Base Model)
1. Windows XP Home to Windows XP Professional with SP2 -> at the time of LP purchase
All features are amazing and what I was looking was available, yea I purchased a Windows XP Professional upgrade for the Windows XP Home version which helped me a lot.

2. Memory Upgrade: 512 MB x 2 to 1GB x 2 - After 6 months
I started slowly upgrading it, which in the process I upgraded MEMORY from 1GB DDR2 to 2 GB DDR2 (Kingston - Life time Warranty). It as two slots filled with 512MB x 2, I moved to 1GB x 2, which worked fine.

3. SATA HDD Upgrade: 120GB5400rpm to 160GB 5400rpm
After few months, when I fall short of storage space (I was working on Oracle Applications 11i which occupies almost 100GB of space with VISION database). So I need more storage which I opted to for 160GB HDD 5400 rpm which costed me 198 $ SD.

Now its old almost 4 Years, everything the same, so I made my mind to upgrade Memory once again to Maximum.
4. 1GB x 2 to 2GB x 1GB -> 3GB of Memory

Grabbed the opportunity today and purchased 2GB to replace 1GB Kingston. In fact I was told before that my laptop won’t support more than 2GB but it did.

I don’t find any issues and it worked. Well I don’t think so that it will work for 4GB Memory as Windows XP Professional as a limit as well as Acer 5670 is a 32-Bit architecture.

So, why waiting MEMORY is very cheap, grab Kingston from microcenter, buy.com or you can check for best deals at deals2buy.

Ravi Prakash

Sybase RAP – The Trading Edition Installation and Configuration

Today I had my first hands on Sybase RAP, one of the new projects which I am handling now; well as RAP I am also new to this, but could able to go ahead setting up the TRADING version on a Test server.Sybase website got good documents about RAP, but yea I found very few documents about Installation, configuration and setting up if compared with Oracle Products on google. Well it’s where I earn my bread so don’t want to compare Products, as for me both are same; difference is to understand the new architecture. After serving with Oracle Products for almost 6 years and continuing it’s been a change and an upgrade with technologies.
Some useful links:

http://infocenter.sybase.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.sybase.help.rap_tte_1.0/title.htm
Sybase RAP is a combination of RAPStore Database (Sybase IQ), RAPCache Database (ASE 12.5 Sybase Database).

SYBASE ASE on Linux Enterprise Edition

Few things about Sybase, as I was asked to setup an infrastructure, with SYBASE as backend on Linux, so I choose to try myself before the project begins. I worked on Sybase few months back on a very old version for one of the leading Bank for Europe, but things have changed a lot, and why not I give a try to see the difference between old and the new version of Sybase and few things to share with

You can download Sybase ASE Express for Linux for learning purpose, it as limits like 1 CPU, 5GB Database...etc ->

More Information on SYBASE ASE
http://download.sybase.com/presentation/linux_training/QUICKSTART/ASE.html
Sybase ASE Express Online - Training Guide forInstallation, Administration & Programming. http://download.sybase.com/presentation/linux_training/
For Product Manuals http://sybooks.sybase.com/nav/base.do