Comments on: It Pays To Shop Around

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:23:58 +0000

Nice job, though I hate to point out that rather than getting a great deal, you simply avoided getting an awful deal

By: wayne

wayne — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:59:29 +0000

So what model did you get? I too went and got a new laptop from dell. Went to get a dell vostro 1500 (located in small business section)for a little over $600 (intel 2 core, windows xp, 2G, 160hd) great price and it had windows xp as an option!

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:20:34 +0000

And this didn’t void your Dell warranty?

By: Hazzard

Hazzard — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:42:12 +0000

Thanks Traciatim,
I did validate that the system could use up to 4 gigs prior to buying the ram, so it worked out perfectly. 4 gigs isn’t what it used to be though, I’ll tell you that. Vista is using over 1 gig all by itself.

By: Traciatim

Traciatim — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:39:11 +0000

Make sure that if you are loading up with 4GB of memory that you have a 64-bit OS. If you are using a 32-bit one (XP or Vista 32 Bit), then some memory may go unused due to technical limitations of a 32-bit computer/OS.