seriously, you need Vista 64bit. If you have a Home Premium Vista license, I'll loan you my CD. Vista 64bit = 4 GB of RAM = the hotness
also, did you get a graphics card with dedicated onboard RAM? HIGHLY important. Can't tell if you got that or not. My HP DV2000t says it's go a NVideo GeForce Go 7200 with 128MB RAM, turns out there's only 32MB of RAM onboard the card, it steals the rest, which is kinda wack but better than nothing.
I dont know if the graphics card has dedicated onboard RAM. How do I find that out?
it would have been an option when you ordered the laptop. sorry man.
Well here are the specs on the graphics card:
Product: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M
Memory Size: 128/256 MB
Memory Interface: 64-bit
Bus Interface: PCI Express x16
Display Connectors: VGA, DVI, LVDS, HDTV, HDMI
Max. Displays per Board: 2
Max. Digital Display Support: 1600 x 1200
Max. Analog Display Support: 2048 x 1536
When you have 4GB of RAM (or even 2), is 96MB really even a big deal? Or is it just a ton slower?
i'll argue that it matters for games. For instance, the other day, I wanted to check out Portal. (i'm not really into first person games but it sounded like an interesting concept.) I checked "can you run it"'s website, and it said i couldn't b/c i didn't have a 128MB graphics card, only a 32MB.
so ... yes.