On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:28:17 -0400, Larry W
wrote:

John H. wrote:
On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 17:05:12 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:

"John H." wrote in message
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Am considering this laptop for my wife's birthday in a couple weeks. Best
Buy has it on sale for $999. I'll add another gig of RAM and router.

http://tinyurl.com/59yons

Thoughts?
Depending on what she'll use if for it may be over-kill.


Yeahbut, she likes it. We skipped the extra gig of RAM. Seems it has only
two slots, one with two gigs, the other with one gig. In order to upgrade
to 4 gigs, I'd have to trash one gig and buy two. Hell with it. We'll see
how it works with only three.

Unless it's the 64-bit version of Vista, Windows can't use more than 3 gigs of ram.

It's the 32-bit. Surprisingly, no one at Best Buy mentioned that.

"John H." wrote in message
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On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:28:17 -0400, Larry W
wrote:

John H. wrote:
On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 17:05:12 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:

"John H." wrote in message
...
Am considering this laptop for my wife's birthday in a couple weeks.
Best
Buy has it on sale for $999. I'll add another gig of RAM and router.

http://tinyurl.com/59yons

Thoughts?
Depending on what she'll use if for it may be over-kill.


Yeahbut, she likes it. We skipped the extra gig of RAM. Seems it has
only
two slots, one with two gigs, the other with one gig. In order to
upgrade
to 4 gigs, I'd have to trash one gig and buy two. Hell with it. We'll
see
how it works with only three.

Unless it's the 64-bit version of Vista, Windows can't use more than 3
gigs of ram.

It's the 32-bit. Surprisingly, no one at Best Buy mentioned that.

Very few know the difference. But 5 months ago when I bought a Q6600 based
quad processor with 4G of RAM, and later added 4G more, they had a special
price to clear them but a stop sell on them because of the high return rate
of Vista 64 bit. They made me sign a waver, I can't return it because of
Vista issues, and got a smoking hot price on it too.

I then wiped Vista off the disk and it now dual boots two versions of Linux
until I pick a favourite. But Vista 64 bit is the way to go if you can live
with a few nuances. What usually gets people with 64 bit is drivers for old
cards and devices.