Gilles Tran wrote:

> I see that it has 2 GB of RAM. Put at least 3-4 GB on it, if it's going to
> run Vista. 

OK.

> Note
> that on a 32-bit OS, 4 GB will translate into "only" 3.2-3.5 GB but any
> extra RAM may still be worthwhile if it's cheap. No such limit on a 64-bit
> OS of course.

Hmm, it actually doesn't say whether it's Vista 32-bit or 64-bit. 
Interesting...



Wait, WTF?

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/149939/show_product_specifications?spectype=extended

"Localisation: Italy"?? o_O

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>> I see that it has 2 GB of RAM. Put at least 3-4 GB on it, if it's 
>> going to
>> run Vista. 
> 
> OK.

Anyone wanna take a guess at what kind of RAM it requires?

> Wait, WTF?
> 
> http://www.ebuyer.com/product/149939/show_product_specifications?spectype=extended 
> 
> "Localisation: Italy"?? o_O

The product advice representative assures me that's a misprint. 
Interestingly, I did a Google for the product code and found at least 
one other website that also claims Italy. Still, they claim they'll take 
it back if it is wrong, so... let's melt my card! :-}

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Invisible wrote:
>>> I see that it has 2 GB of RAM. Put at least 3-4 GB on it, if it's 
>>> going to
>>> run Vista. 
>>
>> OK.
> 
> Anyone wanna take a guess at what kind of RAM it requires?
> 

Um, Proprietary notebook memory. The expensive kind.


>> "Localisation: Italy"?? o_O
> 
> The product advice representative assures me that's a misprint. 
> Interestingly, I did a Google for the product code and found at least 
> one other website that also claims Italy. Still, they claim they'll take 
> it back if it is wrong, so... let's melt my card! :-}

Anything to make a sale and get a commission.

-- 
~Mike

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>> Anyone wanna take a guess at what kind of RAM it requires?
> 
> Um, Proprietary notebook memory. The expensive kind.

Acer.co.uk claims it takes 800MHz DDR2 SODIMMs.



>>> "Localisation: Italy"?? o_O
>>
>> The product advice representative assures me that's a misprint. 
>> Interestingly, I did a Google for the product code and found at least 
>> one other website that also claims Italy. Still, they claim they'll 
>> take it back if it is wrong, so... let's melt my card! :-}
> 
> Anything to make a sale and get a commission.

Well, yeah. But if it really is Italian, I *will* be sending the bugger 
back! ;-)

(Note that the advisor I spoke to isn't a sales advisor. Whether I buy 
the laptop or not makes no difference to his stats.)

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>>>> "Localisation: Italy"?? o_O
>>>
>>> The product advice representative assures me that's a misprint. 
>>> Interestingly, I did a Google for the product code and found at least 
>>> one other website that also claims Italy. Still, they claim they'll take 
>>> it back if it is wrong, so... let's melt my card! :-}
>>
>> Anything to make a sale and get a commission.
>
> Well, yeah. But if it really is Italian, I *will* be sending the bugger 
> back! ;-)
>

Hehe, just wait until you get it and see if the keyboard has lots of funny 
letters you don't understand :-)

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>> Well, yeah. But if it really is Italian, I *will* be sending the 
>> bugger back! ;-)
>>
> 
> Hehe, just wait until you get it and see if the keyboard has lots of 
> funny letters you don't understand :-)

More like, the stickers on the front say something that looks like 
gibberish with the occasional "Core 2 Duo" or something thrown in. ;-)

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> More like, the stickers on the front say something that looks like 
> gibberish with the occasional "Core 2 Duo" or something thrown in. ;-)

Aww I feel left out now, my laptop didn't have any such stickers :-(  (well 
I assume the tiny "Intel Centrino Duo" will be the same in any language)

OOC I wonder why they put those stickers on there, on my monitor I have 3 
such things in barely readable text size that say it's created for Windows 
Vista (WTF!), energy star, and TCO 03.  Will it make me more likely to buy 
it because of those stickers, or are they hoping someone else will notice 
them on my monitor and say "oh wow that Samsung monitor you have there is so 
cool with its 3 tiny stickers like that".

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scott wrote:
>> More like, the stickers on the front say something that looks like 
>> gibberish with the occasional "Core 2 Duo" or something thrown in. ;-)
> 
> Aww I feel left out now, my laptop didn't have any such stickers :-(  
> (well I assume the tiny "Intel Centrino Duo" will be the same in any 
> language)
> 
> OOC I wonder why they put those stickers on there, on my monitor I have 
> 3 such things in barely readable text size that say it's created for 
> Windows Vista (WTF!), energy star, and TCO 03.  Will it make me more 
> likely to buy it because of those stickers, or are they hoping someone 
> else will notice them on my monitor and say "oh wow that Samsung monitor 
> you have there is so cool with its 3 tiny stickers like that".

Yes, I especially like the way you buy a laptop and just below the 
keyboard there's a huge sticker saying something like

"Experience the future with the new Acer Aspire 1352642. Fitted with the 
latest cutting-edge technology, this is truely a laptop of the future. 
Fast, powerful and energy efficient, it embodies the Acer vision of the 
digital lifestyle. [etc]"

Seriously, WTF??

I ALREADY BOUGHT THE LAPTOP! How is sticking an advert to it going to 
make me buy it even more?

Now, if the laptop is sitting in a shop window, that's another matter. 
But it isn't. It's sitting in my house, where nobody except me will ever 
see it. Go figure...

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Gilles Tran wrote:
> 2 GB is enough,

1 GB is "enough" if you keep a clean install and you don't use it for 
memory-sucking programs like POV-Ray. The laptop will probably come loaded 
with all kinds of "helpers" that for some reason try to replace (poorly) 
what Vista does for you anyway (display controllers, NIC controllers, etc). 
But 1G leaves about 450M comfortably free on my wife's machine, so it only 
thrashes around a little when she has five or six programs open. Of course, 
   a laptop is probably going to have a slower disk, too, so...

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

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Invisible wrote:
> Anyone wanna take a guess at what kind of RAM it requires?

Looks like DDR3 SDRAM SO DIMM 200-pin. :-) It looks like 3G too.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

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