(1) Dell's online support site ( http://support.dell.com ) is quite good as far as manuals and drivers. You will have to navigate to your machine's type, but usually that site will have the stuff you want and need.
(2) If the maximum RAM for that model is greater than 4GB, newegg.com has had a LOT of inexpensive ($40 or less for 8GB) laptop RAM lately. If you watch http://www.hot-deals.org/ you will know when and if it happens again.
(3) I believe that model is likely to use a SATA hard drive. However, hard drives either are or are about to become more expensive for a while, due to the flooding in Thailand (which produces a large fraction of hard drives) and Chinese prices on rare earths being raised. So either buy soon or prepare to wait six or twelve months.
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Several things I've learned might help:
(1) Dell's online support site ( http://support.dell.com ) is quite good as far as manuals and drivers. You will have to navigate to your machine's type, but usually that site will have the stuff you want and need.
(2) If the maximum RAM for that model is greater than 4GB, newegg.com has had a LOT of inexpensive ($40 or less for 8GB) laptop RAM lately. If you watch http://www.hot-deals.org/ you will know when and if it happens again.
(3) I believe that model is likely to use a SATA hard drive. However, hard drives either are or are about to become more expensive for a while, due to the flooding in Thailand (which produces a large fraction of hard drives) and Chinese prices on rare earths being raised. So either buy soon or prepare to wait six or twelve months.
Enjoy!