Its pretty easy, newegg has a entire section for laptop memory (as do alot of sites):

Newegg.com - Laptop Memory

Beast, I must be confused, with something.. is it right that on most laptops you can't change graphics cards?

Yea, most of the time the only things you can change are the Ram, Harddrive, Optical Drives, and battery

1.5 times your RAM is just the Windows default, better to go 2-3 times if you have the space. Even better yet is making a dedicated partition for swap file space.

...and CPU.

That seems like a excessive amount. I mean if your so low on memory that you need to set it that high, its time for a upgrade. As long as you have at least 1GB, having 1.5x VM should be more than enough. I can't see having such a large amount of VM helping that much either since its so much slower that actual ram.

How would I find out what kind of memory I'm using? Thanks for the link, BTW.

Download CPU-Z and go to the "Memory" tab and tell us what it says under "Type" and "Frequency".

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/1...board01ku3.jpg

Ok now I know what kind to get...thanks a bunch.

Do laptop mobos have the same amount of slots for memory as PCs do? I'm thinking 4 slots.

Does this match my CPU-Z specs?

That much swap file space is far from overkill and quite common. In fact if you leave it at the default amount Winows will lag and add a measley 2MB at a time when needed even if you do have 1 GB RAM. Forums like VU's FEAR are full of tech talk about people commonly using a 4GB dedicated swap file partition.