I have a ASUS X401A with 4GB RAM and was thinking about bringing my RAM to 8GB, however after watching this video I am having second thoughts about digging into this ONE. This has got to be the worst laptop construction to ever have to GET to RAM in. This is the first main board I have seen that the RAM upgrade requires just about full disassembly. Most will have an access PANEL at the bottom or remove the keyboard and get to the RAM there. But this one goes to a whole new level of disassembly to upgrade RAM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06-HlMu7DCY#t=486.10975

In the video this guy has the X501A which is the same setup but he has a better CPU etc. For the fact that this laptop cost me just $279.99 new and 4GB hasnt been an issue yet, however I have seen my available memory drop to lesser than 1GB with like 3.5GB of the 4GB in use when gaming, at some point the 4GB is going to be an issue.

I havent bought the RAM yet to bring this to 8GB, not sure if I want to go to so much EFFORT and chance damaging the laptop in the process. Its so stupid that it requires so much disassembly to perform a memory upgrade. CLEARLY this laptop was designed to run it as is and toss it away when it no longer performs well with the 4GB RAM. Maybe I will feel that the Celeron 1000M will lag before I run out of memory with what i run. The Celeron 1000M actually runs quite well and much better than the Athlon II M300 2.0Ghz Dual-Core laptop I had prior.

The hard drive is still the original HDD and I have been tempted to upgrade that to a SSD. I might do that to increase load times etc, but the CPU is just a Celeron 1000M 1.8Ghz Dual-Core http://ark.intel.com/products/72060/Intel-Celeron-Processor-1000M-2M-Cache-1_80-GHz

Maybe i should just run it until it feels crippled without upgrades and then get another newer laptop, however I am not impressed with Windows 10 and selection of new systems with Windows 7 64-bit is limited to the more costly business class laptops...