I need some help, deciding witch OS to use

I turned over the laptop. There is only 1 memory slot. It takes DDR3L. The Info on the memory it self is as follow:


4GB 1RX8PC3L


12800s-11-13-B4


HMT45156BFR8A-PB NO AA 1516

Megahertz07 said:

This is what I would do:
- Buy more memory. DDR3 1600 is easy to find.
- If you have (4+0)G buy one more stick, same brand, type and specifications.
- If you have (2+2)G buy a (4+4)G DDR3 1600 kit.
- Buy a 256G SSD. Will cost you around US$30

If your laptop came with Win 7, it has a COA sticker under it or under the battery. You can use it to install Win 7 Home 64.
The best thing would be to do a win 7 64 fresh install on the SSD. As your HDD disk has less than 100G, a 256G SSD will be fine.
Leave the HDD for untouched till you have everything working well on the SSD.

By the way this laptop came with Win 8 installed. But I only had Win 7 Home, both 32 and 64 bit at the time. So I installed the Win 7 Home 32bit. I also found one 1600 DDR3L and a bunch of 8gb's and 16gb's memory sticks on eBay. If the 1600gb is gone by tonight. Will one of the 8gb sticks or 1 of the 16gb sticks be enough?

Will one of the 8gb sticks or 1 of the 16gb sticks be enough?

Win7 x64 runs ok with 4gb. Nowadays 8gb might be better- but that depends on what you are doing .


How much memory does the Dell Inspiron 15 (3541) Laptop take?

You can upgrade your Dell Inspiron 15 (3541) Laptop to up to a maximum memory capacity of 8GB Memory.
How many total memory slots to install memory?

The Laptop has 1 Slot to install memory, already with 4GB standard memory installed. For best Inspiron 15 (3541) Laptop performance use the maximum amount of 8GB

Max Supported Size
8 GB
Technology
DDR3L SDRAM
Speed
1600 MHz
Form Factor
SO-DIMM 204-pin
Slots Qty
1
Empty Slots
0

An SSD might be a more effective upgrade.

Buy a HMT45156BFR8A-PB NO AA 1516 to put on the second memory slot. (Don't forget to take the charger and battery off the laptop)
HMT451S6AFR8A-PB-PC3

Buy a 256G SSD Crucial-MX500-250GB SSD

Replace the HDD with the SSD and do a Clean Install Windows 7 Win 64bits on the SSD

there is only one slot.

Well I would like to thank you all for your input. But I am going to have to stick with what I have for the time been. Right now I have to stretch every penny to the point it is screaming in pain to make ends meet.


Steve