it is strange. most dell computers have 256 mb of ram and it is designed for windows xp. why? xp on a designed for xp computer should be 512mb of ram! right? thats why dells are slow????
2006-10-27 13:58:51 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
because they want the money...
2006-10-27 17:08:31 · answer #1 · answered by dj_j65 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One thing you should know they do this to sell you more ram on the intial sale, but if you tinker with you Dell computer in any way, the warranties are all voided, they want you to send it back or find a Dell authorized seller and has a Dell certified repair person.
Your right to want more RAM the new Vista will require 1 gig, and a 256 mg Video card and 200+ gig HDD, so look foran authorized dealer/repair rep so you can keep all your warranties intact, if anything should happen in the near future that you need a serious issue resolved this will allow you to do it under the Dell umbrella.
2006-10-27 14:06:58 · answer #2 · answered by The Unknown Chef 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well Dell is in business to make money and low RAM quantities is one of the ways they do it. They install only 256M so that you'll buy more RAM from them. Dell's prices for RAM are high and thus the profitability for them.
256M will run XP just fine. It's when you try to run other things that you get hung up and your PC gets real slow. An experiment I ran on my old PC was that all I installed on the hard drive was Windows XP and a little RAM meter (850K).
Windows XP consumed 170M and the RAM meter consumed 5M of my total 768M of RAM. So you can see. If XP takes 150M or greater to run, then 256M total will be consumed very quickly with other programs running. Especially when you start running things like Norton, McAffee, Spyware Doctor and the like.
So in summary, Dell computers aren't really slow in and of themselves, it's really because the package (PC) isn't really optimized in the resource department.
2006-10-27 14:18:36 · answer #3 · answered by Dick 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone has finally figured out how Dell can sell computers for $200 USD!! The bare MINIMUM memory recommended by Microsoft for Win XP is 256Mb of RAM. And yes, that is why Dells run sooo slowww out of the box. The first thing you end up spending money on for your new Dell is more RAM.
2006-10-27 14:37:13 · answer #4 · answered by mittalman53 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I haven't seen any new Dells with 256 in a year or so, and besides they give you the option to upgrade. XPs will run on 256, not well but it will run, so it is up to the user to know they need to upgrade, they offered 256 because some people are just cheap.
EDIT: Last guy is way off on Vista, for the basic version you need 512RAM, 20GB Hard drive, and a 32MB graphics card. (I would never recommend you actual try to run it on this configuratin, but those are the minimums.) For Premium you need 1GB, 40GB HDD, and 128MB Graphcis card.
2006-10-27 14:08:06 · answer #5 · answered by mysticman44 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well.......with CPU's running in the gigahertz range, and high speed busses, RAM isn't quite as big an issue as it once was, but still, when it comes to RAM, more is always better. There could be other reasons your system is slow. Was it slow when you first got it?
2006-10-27 14:08:26 · answer #6 · answered by The Oldest Man In The World 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is there factory settings if you want you can buy additional ram 526 ram is availanle. there are dells with 526 of ram depending on the price and what you ordered
2006-10-27 14:41:16 · answer #7 · answered by carlo juancho 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ought to be lots swifter, Your pc can examine actual memory without delay. something no longer in RAM ought to be looked for on the difficult stress and then loaded into the RAM previously your pc can use it.
2016-11-26 00:04:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋