In for one with $8 Printer (TY humane)...now deciding what is the best thing to do. Wait to pick it up and PM at that time (if deal is legit) or pick it up now and go back and PM.

I am open for suggestions.

ChalPhut said:tubejay said:You'd probably have to get some ram to make that computer work reasonably well. 512mb for Vista is not enough. Still, it's a great deal. Pop in 2 gigs of ram for $40 and you've got a decent laptop.

Link please. Thx

I am not that lazy...geez

Although I do have a question....What type of RAM will I be looking for to fit into this Laptop

billybabe3883 said:In for one with $8 Printer (TY humane)...now deciding what is the best thing to do. Wait to pick it up and PM at that time (if deal is legit) or pick it up now and go back and PM.

I am open for suggestions.

I'd pick it up at the opening Sunday morning.

But only if the deal is real. You should know by then.

If you dont pick up do they charge you still?

UGABulldog said:If you dont pick up do they charge you still?
Nope... they need your herbie handcock before they auth the charge

BassKozz said:Canucklehead said:Driver list (Video, Touchpad, Sound, Network and Modem are all Vista only) Could be a tough switch to XP (if that's what anyone's thinking):
Time to cancel my order ... I was planning on re-formating and putting XP on it... can anyone confirm/deny whether or not there are XP drivers for these devices/hardware?

Naa. You oughtta be OK. The drivers might be tough to assemble, I'll grant you that. MS discourages manufacturers from making XP upgrades convenient for lappys sold with Vista. But if you're good with computers and patient, most likely you will come out OK in the fullness of time.

The secret is to locate Gateway lappy(s), originally sold with XP, and having the same components as this one. You would have to go into your Vista device manager and copy down all the device numbers, then search for lappy(s) having those same devices. After that you go to the Gateway support website for the laptop(s) you identify and download the XP drivers you need.

It's also very possible somebody already has done all this work and posted the "how to" on the net someplace. That's what happened for me with my new Compaq Vista lappy I wanted to upgrade. A little search time on Google and I was good to go. Good, that is, after downloading about 40+M worth of drivers!

But in the end, everything came out just great. It was well worth the effort to get XP, and it was free.

chibial said:ChalPhut said:billybabe3883 said:ChalPhut said:tubejay said:You'd probably have to get some ram to make that computer work reasonably well. 512mb for Vista is not enough. Still, it's a great deal. Pop in 2 gigs of ram for $40 and you've got a decent laptop.

Link please. Thx

I am not that lazy...geez

Although I do have a question....What type of RAM will I be looking for to fit into this Laptop

Neither am I. I posted my request after unsuccessfully STFF.

Chalput. Go run a title search and put "So-Dimm" its the first one that pops up. simple

heres the link

try some different variations of searches next time. its one thing to search, but it really gets under my skin when people are just downright lazy.

And I thank you for your grace

onion said: Ya but that one does not count since it was the biggest POS laptop ever sold on the face of the earth.

Like anyone can even know that! Gosh!

Woah there Guardian44, easy with the double post, I already thanked you the first time

just in time as my wife was wondering if she could get a laptop...

with only 512 ram, I'm thinking if putting Ubuntu on it, which should run very well as opposed to how vista may or may not run on it.

At least I'd probably have to take off all the pretty eye candy, which really is the big difference between XP and Vista.

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vista basic doesn't even come with the pretty eye candy. haha