Re: How\'s this laptop look?
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buying more ram down the road is more expensive than upgrading from 512 to 1gig when you are buying it
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that is patently false. dell's bread and butter on low-margin systems are warranties and point of purchase upgrades which could be done cheaper aftermarket, ram being one of the most notorious examples. look at crucial.com (and that's not the cheapest vendor by any stretch, they're just the biggest and most popularly reputable). the ram he gets in a prebuilt laptop is going to be the same as far as the user is concerned as anything else they'd buy.
bottom line: 512MB is fine. if it gives you piece of mind upgrade-wise to have 1x512MB instead of 2x256MB, it may be worth the price difference for you. definitely spring for the 60gb/7200rpm drive if you can budget it.
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