Still undecided on laptop final 2 to choose from buying tomorrow morning HELP :-)

onzey

With a little bit of advice many people manage to upgrade memory themselves. There is quite likely a panel which can be removed on the bottom of the laptop to gain access to the installed memory. I checked the spec page for the Tosh l300-1aq and it said 2 x 1GB sticks of memory. So you could replace 1x 1GB and replace with 1x 2GB to give 3GB total or replace both 1GB sticks with 2 x 2GB sticks to give a total of 4GB. You could obviously try and sell the 1 x 1GB stick(s) to recoup some money (ebay?)

aliEnRIK

babybakey wrote: »

as a novice in this sort of thing ive no idea what that means , is that the memory to go inside or external one? if internal is it expensive to get installed? as the more expensive toshiba is only £50 more with 4gb RAM so probably easier do you think ?

Trust me, 2 gig is fine.
If your REALLY concerned about it, then buy the 4 gig. But youd have to be REALLY using ram before 2 gig was running on its limits (Highly unlikely under normal use)

I have a 2 gig XP which I regularly had LOADS of programs running at the same time and it never bombed out. I now have a 4 Gig Vista machine which has never come close to even 3 gig usage, never mind 4 (And thats with literally hundreds of pics in memory, alongside other apps running)

Even if you DID hit the limits. Theyre easy as pie to fit, They literally 'clip in'

jaydeeuk1

To the other post re. the screen. My wife has a similar model (was more expensive in fact) with the same screen. The viewing angle is poor - not an issue if you're the only person sitting in front of it, but she uses it for school and often plays DVDs for the children to watch. If you go out of a 90 degree angle then the screen loses all colour making it hard to watch. Other than that its a damn good laptop, and like I say, only a potential issue if you need a wide viewing angle.

Can't imagnie any situation you'd come across (for your needs stated earlier) where you would need more than 2 gb either..

babybakey

jaydeeuk1 wrote: »

To the other post re. the screen. My wife has a similar model (was more expensive in fact) with the same screen. The viewing angle is poor - not an issue if you're the only person sitting in front of it, but she uses it for school and often plays DVDs for the children to watch. If you go out of a 90 degree angle then the screen loses all colour making it hard to watch. Other than that its a damn good laptop, and like I say, only a potential issue if you need a wide viewing angle.

Can't imagnie any situation you'd come across (for your needs stated earlier) where you would need more than 2 gb either..

thank you so much , my husbands just throught the door now so i shall bore him to sleep with my new found knowledge :-) thanks again , i shall shout tomorrow and tell everyone how well i did with the haggling

thanks xx

g_attrill

2Gb is perfectly fine with Vista - it's silly to say that the average "web/email/office/photos/video" user will need more. Even if somebody *does* find they need more then it's fairly straightforward to upgrade most laptops.