Funny
Marcel Kunath
kunathma@pilot.msu.edu
Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:52:00 -0400 (EDT)
Probably true but how many people enjoy opening a laptop for a memory switch?
If you want to stuff the system when you buy it you will pay dearly. How much
work is it to switch memory in a laptop?
They charge you still 450 dollars extra if you want the full 512 meg of ram at
dell.
It was a conspiracy theory. =)
mk
> > "Marcel
Kunath" <kunathma@pilot.msu.edu> writes: >
> > With laptops its even worse. They still ship the same old motherboards which
> > take up to 512 meg of ram. But you don't see any of the laptop makers sellin
g
> > them filled up with ram. If you want the full load you pay 700 bucks for
> > memory.
>
> Not true. I just check memory prices last week and I can fully
> populate my laptop's memory (to 512 MB) for under $250, possibly
> much cheaper. (And then I could sell the 192 MB it already has.)
>
> I dunno about the rest of your comments; it sounds like a
> conspiracy theory to me, and I don't usually believe in
> conspiracy theories.
> --
> "GNU does not eliminate all the world's problems,
> only some of them."
> --Richard Stallman
>
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