Acer Aspire One 722 Performance Upgrades
If you have the lovely little AO722 netbook you may be looking for some simple and cheap upgrades. Here are my top upgrades for the AO722:
- Upgrade the RAM to 4GB for $20 or even 8GB for less than $40!
- Upgrade the HDD to a high performance SSD for less than $100
- Add bluetooth by upgrading the wifi card to a combo wifi + bluetooth card for about $20
- Add a Huawei 3G data card in the extra mini pci-e slot
The AMD C-50 CPU is about the only thing that is not upgradeable 🙁 But thankfully, as shown above and below, almost all the AO722’s other components are easily upgradeable!
After removing the retaining screw, pull downward on both of the rubber feet to slide open the access panel (NOT pictured: slide the battery lock open and remove the battery before proceeding)
If you have any additional performance tips for the A0722, please post in the comments below 🙂
I am wondering if you can use an msata ssd in addition to sata to have the msata be a boot drive and the sata as storage
All the information I have found online says the RAM upgrade is limited to 4 GB DDR3 Memory but you say that you can upgrade to 8 GB. What is your basis for that statement?
Hi Michael,
Thank you for your comment. My basis for the statement is that I upgraded the RAM in my Acer One 722 to 4GB and then later to an 8GB stick of memory and it worked properly. 👍👍
https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/upgrading-memory-acer-aspire-one-a0722-4gb-hdd/ (here are instructions for the upgrade process in general, as well as the recommended 8GB RAM)
I hope this helps!
Have a great day!
-J.D.