5101 Memory upgrade - help with choices

[shifter]

i have a 5101 that came with 1Gb RAM. i was going to upgrade to 2Gb; should i choose based on price/convienience or is there some added performance to be achieved by being more discerning?

the Atom bus is 533MHz and i have plenty of RAM choice around 667 and 800. will my best be finding a 667 with tight timings?

are there power conservation considerations that would be more beneficial than some small speed benefit?

thanks in advance.

[juan david]

As with every product there are companies that will charge more for no real reason at all (see monster cables for further reference) son be cautious about paying a lot for memory.
I think there are some real advantages to choosing more expensive memory, but it really depends on what you are gonna do about it, for example there are some ram sticks (for desktops) with passive heat dissipation and that comes in handy for overclocking for example.
In your case (and most laptop users) that kind of "weird" use is not likely to happen, so i recommend an cheap ram upgrade, i did that with my old 2133 and did not have any trouble.
My recommendation would be to get the memory of the speed that is supported by you bios,533 Mhz if my memory serves me well, since i don't think there is any advantage in getting a higher speed that can't be used by the board (why get a Ferrari to drive it at a 10 MPH maximum speed).

[shifter]

thanks for the response.

533 is uncommon now and using a memory that can run higher does nothing but run at 533

tighter timings will probably be the only performance increase i can get and even then it would only apply to certain situations.

i will be using the Mini in many different ways, as i use it a secondary machine to my desktop. depending on what i am doing the netbook could even end up doing AV re-encodes.