my friends pc says 489,904 kb ram and mine says 504mb of ram does that mean mine is 504000 kb and there isn't much difference or have i worked it out wrong.
if you are a pc expert watch this space we have to figure out if my mate bought a dud pc ,guy sold her it said top range ands its only a windows 2000 (that i seen straight away was a bad mistake)
any help on what to look for to compare the two pc would be great help mine isn't great but was cheaper than hers and is a laptop on xp ,she just needs ammo for the guy who sold it to her.Thanks
2007-03-10 05:54:29 · 10 answers · asked by Nutty Girl 7 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
mark im sure if i knew what u were on about it could help lol.
2007-03-10 06:11:15 · update #1
Top of the range? Windows 2000? I think your friend should have gone to a reputable dealer!
Unless your friend has a written description from the seller stating that Windows 2000 is "Top of the Range", then I'm afraid there's little she can do about it. Her best bet would be to check out the other components, i.e. processor and hard drive, to see if they are good enough to support Windows XP.
If they are, she should be able to get a small dealer (i.e. *not* PC World) to upgrade her system quite cheaply. Don't go for Windows Vista though, it's not good enough yet.
2007-03-10 06:15:50 · answer #1 · answered by Andy M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depending on how the manufacturer calculates RAM capacities, 1 MB could equal either 1000 KB or 1024 KB.
The difference could also be due to how much of your RAM is being shared to your video cards.
Does it meet her needs and do everything she was told it would?
Things I'd look at would be processor speed, peripherals, upgrade-ability, chipset on the motherboard, types of available expansion slots, and types of integrated components.
2007-03-10 06:15:54 · answer #2 · answered by headmaster382005 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it shows in Kb's just divide by a 1000 to get Mb's you are correct in the way you've worked it out the number difference is because of shared video memory your memory is actually 512Mb which means you've got 8Mb video memory as for you friend by the look of it they should have 512Mb as well so they should a have 16Mb of shared video memory
2007-03-10 06:03:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
GB are created from a lot of MB MB are created from a lot of KB KB are purely small. yet GB isn't the biggest, there are larger accessible like TB, that's created from a lot of GB.
2016-10-18 01:15:41 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your friends pc looks like it is using mother board ram for video ram look in bios does your frien have a onboard video and yours have a caed with its own memory. Also a memory resident virus that could do that too
2007-03-10 06:06:09 · answer #5 · answered by markshere4u 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Same amount of physical RAM. On board video is using some of the RAM. That is what they call shared RAM.
2007-03-10 06:04:10 · answer #6 · answered by Helpdeskpilot 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1mb is 1024kb --> so 504mb is 516,096kb so yes very similar in ram
windows 2000 is certainly not top of the range though
2007-03-10 05:59:56 · answer #7 · answered by Jac12345 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Different operating systems/software and computers may show different memory stats. What I think I see here is that both of your computers have 512MB of physical memory (chips).
Nothing wrong with them.
2007-03-10 06:00:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
both of u have a standard of 512MB of ram,her PC just show it different.(i think)
2007-03-10 05:59:57 · answer #9 · answered by Bend it like Bender 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No the RAM in mb is rounded!So an example 499.990kb it is in mb 500mb!
2007-03-10 05:58:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋