Looking for A Laptop

[basswipe]

Chuck not sure why johnny would say xp doesn't play well with more than 3gb ram.XP SP3 plays extremely well with large memory,actually better than Vista in most cases.

Toshiba laptops are second to none.

[Raven]

Crafty if Ya purchase your lappy at best buy...don't fall for the service plan they try and sell ya... because it's a joke...

they say they'll stand behind their product .... with a hefty price-tag... then you go in with a minor problem (6 months later) and they want to charge you a bundle to get it fixed....

just a heads up... spend a little time discussing those options before you take the bait...

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by basswipe

Chuck not sure why johnny would say xp doesn't play well with more than 3gb ram.XP SP3 plays extremely well with large memory,actually better than Vista in most cases.

Toshiba laptops are second to none.

I say XP doesn't play well with more than 3GB of ram because 32-bit Windows Operating Systems have a self limiting addressing system that limits total memory utilization (Page File Utilization) to 4GB. If you have any RAM in your video driver or Virtual Memory, that 4th GB of RAM paid for is not being used by the XP addressing system.

Memory limits for *all* Microsoft Windows releases can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...its_windows_xp

While you could purchase a 64-bit XP and utilize more than 4GB of RAM, there is minimal developer support for that OS when compared to 32-bit XP or 32/64-bit Vista.

Instead of "play well," I should have said "is a waste of money."

[basswipe]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

Instead of "play well," I should have said "is a waste of money."

Much better way of putting it.

That's why I'm a Linux man.No limits to deal with.