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Title: Are Future Shop Liars? - You tell me
Post by: QueeNiE on November 24, 2007, 04:59:46 PM

Well, for several months now, my mom's laptop has been running slowely, and she has asked me to find out why.  It is currently running vista.  On the sticker on the side, it says "1GB DDR2 RAM," yet when I run Bios, and the DxDiag, AND the control panel, they all say ~750mb of RAM.  Did future shop lie to us?  Did they sell us a bad laptop?


One last thing I would like to point out before you give your opinions, is that in Bios it says ~250mb of Video memory.  Adding that to 750 = 1000 (1 GB) obviously.  My dad seems to think that they are sperated, but I think that the 250 is just a partition of the 750 used for video memory.

So is future shop lying to me?  Should I sue for millions of dollars?  Am I super shmecksi?  You tell me.


Thanks, Brock.

Title: Re: Are Future Shop Liars? - You tell me
Post by: KnacK on November 24, 2007, 05:01:37 PM

Brock,

You are correct in stating that the video mem is getting subtracted from the main RAM.

You didn't get screwed.

Title: Re: Are Future Shop Liars? - You tell me
Post by: QueeNiE on November 24, 2007, 05:05:47 PM

They sold it to me as a one gig, so wouldn't that mean that I am in fact getting screwed?


I'm probably just being stupid in not understanding what your saying :-\

Title: Re: Are Future Shop Liars? - You tell me
Post by: KnacK on November 24, 2007, 05:09:55 PM

You do have one gig of RAM.

But, 250 mb of that is tied up for video memory since you have an integrated video controller.

Title: Re: Are Future Shop Liars? - You tell me
Post by: y00tz on November 24, 2007, 11:01:41 PM

'shared video ram' is one of those phrases computer store throw around like it's a plus...

Title: Re: Are Future Shop Liars? - You tell me
Post by: KiLo on November 25, 2007, 11:58:47 AM

Bottom line is though that 1 gig of RAM really is not enough for Vista to run on. And considering that 250 megs of that is going to video then you have even less RAM for the OS.

Title: Re: Are Future Shop Liars? - You tell me
Post by: lekky on November 25, 2007, 02:06:28 PM

Do they still say 1GB when they actually mean 1000MB too?

Title: Re: Are Future Shop Liars? - You tell me
Post by: KiLo on November 25, 2007, 02:14:24 PM

That would be a lie since 1GB=1024 MB.

Title: Re: Are Future Shop Liars? - You tell me
Post by: lekky on November 25, 2007, 03:01:48 PM

I know it used to be the case that if you were getting a HD, they would use 1GB=1000 MB.

Title: Re: Are Future Shop Liars? - You tell me
Post by: sk89q on November 25, 2007, 08:04:05 PM

I run Vista on 765 MB of RAM :/ but I have Aero and a number of services disabled.

Title: Re: Are Future Shop Liars? - You tell me
Post by: Eiii on November 25, 2007, 10:02:38 PM

Quote from: sk89q on November 25, 2007, 08:04:05 PM

I run Vista on 765 MB of RAM :/ but I have Aero and a number of services disabled.

I still will never understand why you do that.

Title: Re: Are Future Shop Liars? - You tell me
Post by: sk89q on November 25, 2007, 11:50:21 PM

Because it's too late to install XP. I'd have to spend over a week reinstalling software, and not to mention transferring over lots of customization data.

I wait for SP1, badly. Vista's slow-butt copy/move & folder access routines are exceptionally annoying.

Title: Re: Are Future Shop Liars? - You tell me
Post by: KnacK on November 26, 2007, 11:23:28 AM

why oh why are you reinstalling Vista.....