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[quote=That Guy]the integrated gfx card sucks, but outside of that its a good laptop that shouldn't give you any troubles. good job.[/quote]
I play more consol games than computer games so do i really need a good grafix card??

And thanks everyone for all the help with options for MS office but I had the stuff I needed and I have it running already. I put that in and transfered over 3GBs of redskin videos and I am good to go with everything I need

How much would more memory cost like Bohnzie said? Is it hard to do?

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[quote=BigSKINBauer]I play more consol games than computer games so do i really need a good grafix card??

And thanks everyone for all the help with options for MS office but I had the stuff I needed and I have it running already. I put that in and transfered over 3GBs of redskin videos and I am good to go with everything I need

How much would more memory cost like Bohnzie said? Is it hard to do?[/quote]

memory upgrades are fairly cheap and pretty easy to do, but you need a micro screw driver and the screw(s) that hold the flap you need to open tend to be cheap ones that strip with some ease :/

the upgrade takes under 5 minutes though, just open the ram package and push it into the slot, screw the faceplate back on and that's that.

for prices, i'm not sure what speed your laptop uses, but its probably 200 pin ddr3200 (though it might be ddr2 pc4200). either type costs $35-50 + shipping (for a 512mb stick) depending on brand.

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yeah, what he said...

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Sounds good. Will the $50 be worth spending??

Best buy has says this- "512MB PC2-4200 DDR2 memory for multitasking power, expandable to 2GB; 533MHz frontside bus, 2MB L2 cache and 1.73GHz processor speed"
So i guess I have a PC2-4200 DDR2 thing. Can anyone show me a good place to buy one and tell me what to buy?

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its only worth buying ram at a store if it is on sale, otherwise get it online,
ebay or some other site.

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[quote=BigSKINBauer]Sounds good. Will the $50 be worth spending??

Best buy has says this- "512MB PC2-4200 DDR2 memory for multitasking power, expandable to 2GB; 533MHz frontside bus, 2MB L2 cache and 1.73GHz processor speed"
So i guess I have a PC2-4200 DDR2 thing. Can anyone show me a good place to buy one and tell me what to buy?[/quote]

newegg.com is where i buy most of my crap. most things get to your house in 2 days and they're the cheapest and most used online computer shop. very very good reputation to boot.

this one is $56... there's a cheaper one, but its a no-name and i've had problems with crap makers before. I've never had a bad Kingston stick though.
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820144179[/url]

gimme 5 minutes to see if i can find a better price.

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nope, $56 is the cheapest you can get it (51$ + 5$ shipping) without it being a crap brand. and yeah, I'd say the difference from 512mb to 1gb is worth the cost. above 1gb you probably won't notice unless you use massive photoshop files, use the laptop as a database server (why oh why?) or play very specific new games (but laptop gfx cards would probably be the bottleneck before ram).

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When buying memory, I either buy Kingston or Crucial...nothing else. and I second newegg.com.

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If it is good enough for that guy and DBohnzie, it is good enough for me. I'll get something like that real soon.

BTW, my computadora is one of the 4 things circulating on bestbuy.com 's home page. It makes me feel special. Its only there because its on sale for $850 though :(.

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ram goes on sale often... unfortunately, laptop ram (sodimms) is rarely included. office depot or best buy are the most likely to have rebates on 512mb sticks of kingston, but you might only get one good sale price (below newegg) every 3 months or so, so I'd check, but i wouldn't hold my breath (and some people just aren't anal enough to deal with rebates).

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I'll wait for a bit and check out some stores and ask around over there because I got time before I need it.

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Another question. I have a 'magicgate' on the side of the laptop. WTF is that?

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[QUOTE=BigSKINBauer]Another question. I have a 'magicgate' on the side of the laptop. WTF is that?[/QUOTE]
Sony jump drives have Magicgate which encrypt and restrict copying of files to and from the laptop via the magicgate port. It only matters if you get a Sony memory stick I believe. Anyone else know for positive?