Upgrade Wireless Card in Laptop?

[FanIn80]

I have the Dell Studio 1747 laptop, and I want to upgrade it to a dual-band wireless card. I found this one on their site: http://accessories.dell.com/sna/prod...1&sku=430-3128

The question I have is how difficult with the install process be? Have any of you done something like this before? Is it something I can do myself, or will I need to take it in somewhere? I'm speaking in terms of tools and accessibility, not skill. In other words... if all I need are the same tools I use to upgrade the hard drive or memory, then I should be fine.

Thanks!

[FanIn80]

Never mind. I actually got someone from Dell Support who is able to speak English. He confirmed that changing the wireless card is as simple as changing the hard drive or memory.

Case closed.

[mykalberta]

It should be easy. In most Dell the wireless is an expansion card either underneath the keyboard or where the extra ram slot is on the underside of the computer.

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by FanIn80

Never mind. I actually got someone from Dell Support who is able to speak English. He confirmed that changing the wireless card is as simple as changing the hard drive or memory.

Case closed.

It actually can be slightly more difficult than RAM or HDD, since you need to attach cables as well. Seriously though, it is pretty simple. Even on my laptop where I had to take the keyboard off I still had it done in ~20 mins.

[FanIn80]

Nice, thanks guys.