[WIDOWMAKER99]

girl from work brings in her moms laptop today for me to look at

says something is wrong it keeps freezing up and stuttering

well i bring it home ,look at it ..

she has windows VISTA premium

on this NEW HP laptop ..and it came with only 2 -512 meg sticks of ram ?

how the hell do they expect vista to run on less then a gig of ram .. the vid chip is nvidia 7150



and thats useing 256 meg for video ... and yea i checked and there is no way in the bios to lower that .. at least with the original shitty bios leaving only 768 meg to run VISTA premium????????????

why the hell do they sell such shit!

good news is.... i told her just buy a 4 gig corsair mem kit for it .. (37.99 for corsair@newegg)and buy 2 of em .. one i keep for my dell


and one for hers.... i'll install it and she owes me nothing plus i do a full sweep of the system and full reinstall if i find any issiues or problems /up to and including adding better security settings /software

plus go to her house to config a wireless router to work with this system as well as her old Desktop

but i cant believe that HP /DELL and other system builders are STILL not useing /telling people /recommending /the proper amount of ram for VISTA ..

plus she just bought this @christmas time @ walmart for $799

it has the same CPU as my dell i bought over a year ago ...has an athalon X2 tk -55 1.8 ghz

and i only paid @489 for my dell

granted she has a 160 gig hardisk .. mines only a 80 gig ...but damn thats one expensive hardrive !

found out VISTA SUCKED On a gig o ram ..installed a 2 gig kit and went back (well upgraded it ) to windows XP Pro

heck i was playing counterstrike source on it that weekend we all played

[Iron Monkey]

Duh...(no offense, but you're forgetting)....you thank Remington for that.

Sell 'm the razor cheap, bilk 'm on the blades.

All of the retail units are like that...throw in the cheapies, people want more? Sure, for a price. Keeps Best Buy/Office Despot/Stapled in business with service & upgrades. Old story hoss.

It's why I recommend product, but don't sell it. Not worth it at all, and there's no margin. Only way to make margin on product is to mark it up to hell and back, and you need quantity to get that extra margin. Pfft.

[WIDOWMAKER99]

well the good news out of it all .. the the lady did buy a 4 gig mem kit ..$40 from newegg

and she also bought me one too !

should be here by the end of the week so my Dell Lappy will go to the max 4 Gb of mem

and i'll have some laptop sodimms for sale .. DDR2 ..two one gig chips (crucial) and 2 X 512 PC2 5300 dunno brand .. came with the Dell..think it's HYNIX ..