Originally Posted by
chrisi1024
This is a pathetically small amount. To run Vista smoothly, you should get a minimum of 2GB of RAM. I went over to
http://www.crucial.com/ and 2GB from them cost $170.
It might be cheaper to have Gateway toss 2GB in at the factory.
Gateways are perfectly fine laptops overall.
Um, it wasn't a pathetically small amount in
February 2005, which is the date of the first post.
For some reason, the second poster decided to dig this old chestnut up from three years ago.
(Costco has a Gateway model in stores for $700 with some pretty decent specs - and yes, it has 2GB of RAM, among other things.)