According to Lenovo's datasheet, I can only upgrade my notebook up to 16GB of RAM, according to a reseller up to 32GB of RAM, is the dealer right?

Hi

I get the Lenovo l340 gaming for Christmas. An 8 GB RAM module is currently installed there. According to Lenovo's data sheet, 16 GB of RAM go.

Now I have discovered this notebook at a dealer that only sells to students. This offers it already upgraded to 16 GB RAM and with the possibility to upgrade to 32 GB RAM.

I thought that was a mistake, but he says that this is possible without any problems and that some retailers would generally only give 16 GB of RAM as the highest.

Is he right that I can easily expand it to 32 GB without any worries or problems? And if so, why do the manufacturers only give 16 GB of RAM?

And if I should upgrade it, I have to do it in an authorized workshop because of the guarantee. How do I get this out? And would you only upgrade it to 16 GB or 32 GB?

What is the advantage / difference?

Use it to play, work, edit video.

And it only has a 128 GB SSD hard drive built in, which is very quickly full, right? Therefore my question how much do you recommend to upgrade here and can I download Lenovo vantage, the Windows… From Lenovo? Unfortunately CD Rom is no longer available with this notebook.

And then does the dealer set everything up again?

What are the costs for upgrading from a dealer? (Do it yourself is not because of the guarantee)

And can I continue to use the 128 GB SSD as an external drive? Is there an external case to buy, if so, for what price?

Looking forward to your answers thank you

According to Lenovo, the L340 Gaming has a soldered latch + a replaceable latch, each with 8GB Ram. The dealer probably missed that, with 2 interchangeable bars 32GB might have been feasible, but not so.

Depending on what you're doing, it should already be a 512GB SSD (in M.2 format!).

The manual also tells you how to replace them.

https://download.lenovo.com/...201904.pdf

To set up Windows again, you should prepare a USB stick, MS has a tool (media creation tool) for this. As a precaution, write down the product key if it is not glued to the bottom.

It's best not to reinstall Lenovo Vantage…

Perfect answer!
Just one more thing about storage:
32 GB for gaming is currently inappropriate.
16 GB are currently faster (as of 12/2019) because 32GB have longer addressing times.
With 128 GB-M2 directly on the chipset you really don't get far and you will reach the limit quite quickly if several games are installed.
If possible, order the NB with 512 GB.

In his case, more than 16Gb would be even slower, since dual channel operation at 8 + 16Gb is no longer possible. Otherwise, yes, more than 16GB are pointless for gaming and for most of the private video editing too.

OK, so that does not mean upgrading to 32 GB because it does not work and apparently the Campus Point is incorrect as described above, but it does have 16 GB RAM right? At the moment there are only 8 GB of RAM, of which 7. According to the advertisement, can be used. Whatever that means with the soldered and what function it has.

Or is the 8 GB RAM actually enough in my case?

Soldered here means that you have one slot, where the second one would be, a memory stick is permanently installed and not replaceable.

I just checked and oh dear.

There are at least 5 variants of this model "Lenovo l340 gaming". Sometimes the memory is soldered, sometimes it is just a memory space.

At the dealer campus, I can download two data sheets for the laptop, each describing it differently - for the same product!

Since his upgrade offer consists of exchanging the existing lock with a larger one, I assume that there's only space for one soldered lock. That means you have to use his offer for more ram directly, because later nothing can be changed. And 16GB would be good, even if 8 would be enough. With 8GB, the SSD is used to swap data earlier and one or the other game (eg BF5) is very grateful for more ram. However, this is not so noticeable in everyday life.