CharlesBlackstone wrote:
> Hi, I want to give my friend's son a gig of ram I took out of my Dell
> Lattitude D800 laptop, for his Dell Inspiron 8600. He currently only
> has half a gig. His machine takes newer PC2700 ram whereas mine is
> PC2100 ram. How much will PC2100 ram slow his machine?
>
> Thanks much...

Because of potential instablilty problems (not so much speed), go with
the specified ram, or faster.

You will likely get away with the slower Ram.... but no promises here.