Sivertones said:I'd love to beef up the Ram on the Dell but everything I read says 512. It's a dell Inspiron 8100.


Right you are. I have the very same machine here. It's a little slow but runs beautifully. I have it set up as a phone system for Magic Jack and is using shared files with this computer. (A very handy thing, BTW) When I go out on the road again I'll be using it as my music machine. I also have an IBM thinkpad but it's for music only and will serve as a backup incase the Dell dies.

That said, when I first got the Dell it had 128 MB of memory and (I think) a 120 gig hard drive. Had XP Pro on it but something went wrong with it and I had to install XP Home in its place. (I happend to have an extra copy on hand with SP1) That's when I found that 512 MB ram was the max it will take. Any more is ignored. Just thought I'd pass this onto you.

Russ
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