kmaalfiisa

an LG Phenom

a very small lap top with good potential
an i mwondering if anyone could help me find a wireless (cable) internet adapter
and a hard drive booster/ memory upgrade

this is a 1996-97 model

i greatly appreshiate your help

Tranquilized

Wireless cards can be found in the USB or PCMCIA variety, and should be available pretty much anywhere at a fairly reasonable price ($50-60). USB cards are external cards that plug into a USB port (obviously), and PCMCIA cards fit into an internal expansion bay, usually on the side of the laptop.

Laptop harddrives are expensive, so if you want more storage I personally would just get a USB and/or firewire external harddrive. If you want a normal, internal harddrive, you need one in the 2.5" size. Once again, very pricey IMO. You can buy an external harddrive already assembled, or buy a 3.5" harddrive and buy an external enclosure seperately. Its probably a little cheaper to buy the drive and enclosure seperately and put it together yourself (very easy to do).

Finally if you want more RAM, you need to find out the bus speed and pin count of the RAM your motherboard is compatible with. Should be able to find out by searching the model number of the computer on google. You are looking for SO-DIMM chips (assuming your computer is new enough to accept DIMMs).

Hope that helps. I'm half asleep, so let me know if any of that actually makes sense.

kmaalfiisa

im a noob toward this kinda stuff, but you actually put some sense into that.
its a 96-97 model year, dont know if that works

ill check on its motherboard and start looking for hardrdives tomarro

thanks!

meGrimlock

the model year doesnt really mean much as far as laptops, but judging by the age you may not even have the option for USB. best thing is to get the exact model number or mfg spec and you'll have a better idea what its capable of. internal hard drives havent changed much in general but your motherboard may not be able to recognize hard drives over 8.4GB, and if you're running Win98/ME you'll have some issues getting to 32GB - 137GB. not to say it can't be done cuz there are bootloaders that can piggyback the BIOS and use the large drives. its been my experience that they dont work with 100% of everybody's hardware config.
-meGrimlock

kmaalfiisa

the thing shows in memory that it has 16,*** Kb's
is that any good?
i think Kb is just under MB, and after a MB is a GB, after GB is TB (tetrabyte)
im pretty sure it cant handle anything in the GB zone

meGrimlock

actually, they're all the same. the prefix (kilo, mega, giga) are just decimal indicators. quick rule of thumb: 1000 bytes = 1 kilobyte, 1000 kilobytes = 1 megabyte, 1000 megabytes = 1 gigabyte, and so on and so forth. its slightly more complicated than that but its accurate enough. looking for the LG Phenom i came accross a bunch of pocket PC handheld devices, are you sure this is a laptop, not a PDA?

http://www.mobiledevices.com/LGPhenom.htm

if it has a pcmcia slot you can upgrade to a wifi adapter, but i doubt any are compatible with WinCE. ram and storage seem upgradable with some kind of memory card (much like a dig. camera). hate to break it to you, but its more palm pilot than laptop.

kmaalfiisa

yeah i guess
F***********

i was hoping to find a place that has a ton of upgrades, but i keep getting sh**
now i dont know what to do with it