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Im looking into upgrading my school laptop to windows 10. I would also like to upgrade it's ram somewhat soon (within a few months) but I read something about needing to keep the same hardware or windows will deactivate or something? I assumed ram wouldn't matter,anyone know more about this?

ram won't matter

 

if you swap the hdd/ssd

 

or if by chance swap a laptop mobo lol.

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Im looking into upgrading my school laptop to windows 10. I would also like to upgrade it's ram somewhat soon (within a few months) but I read something about needing to keep the same hardware or windows will deactivate or something? I assumed ram wouldn't matter,anyone know more about this?

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Im looking into upgrading my school laptop to windows 10. I would also like to upgrade it's ram somewhat soon (within a few months) but I read something about needing to keep the same hardware or windows will deactivate or something? I assumed ram wouldn't matter,anyone know more about this?

ram won't matter

 

if you swap the hdd/ssd

 

or if by chance swap a laptop mobo lol.

 

 

 

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RAM doesn't have anything to do with activation process.

 

Only Motherboard.

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ram won't matter

 

if you swap the hdd/ssd

 

or if by chance swap a laptop mobo lol.

I don't think HDD or SSD.

 

If your laptop comes with Windows 8, the key likely to be embedded into the BIOS.

 

So you won't have problem with activation.

Intel Core i3 2100 @ 3.10GHz - Intel Stock Cooler - Zotac Geforce GT 610 2GB Synergy Edition

Intel DH61WW - Corsair® Value Select 4GBx1 DDR3 1600 MHz - Antec BP-300P PSU

WD Green 1TB - Seagate 2.5" HDD 1TB - Seagate Barracuda 500GB - Antec X1 E.

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