I Smell bulls**t
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Just bought a Fujitsu Siemens V5535 Laptop as a Christmas pressie from a well known online "direct" seller. The spec of the machine showed 1Gb of RAM and as it was running Vista I felt it would be better to go for the larger RAM. All inclusive price of £299 and very well reveiwed.
Once it arrived I set everything up in readiness for wrapping in nice chrissy paper. During the set up process I noticed in properties for My Computer the RAM was showing as 768mb and not 1Gb as advertised. On checking with the companies customer service I was told that because VISTA is using ram it will only show what is available
I tried to argue that it should show what's installed as opposed to whats available but the stazi on the other end of the line wouldn't have it. Eventually I gave up.
I checked on my XP desktop and sure enough it showed 512mb RAM which is what's installed. I then checked my Vista Samsung Laptop which has 2Gb and low and behold it showed 2048mb, again, which is what's installed.
It seems to me that the seller is pulling a fast one by only including 768 Mb instead of the advertised 1024Mb and then when they get the queries they bullshit their way around it. At this price level I would suspect that most buyers would probably not know there way around a computer so would never notice they had only 3/4's of the RAM they paid for.
So is it bull or is there a way that the RAM would show less than is actually installed.
Once it arrived I set everything up in readiness for wrapping in nice chrissy paper. During the set up process I noticed in properties for My Computer the RAM was showing as 768mb and not 1Gb as advertised. On checking with the companies customer service I was told that because VISTA is using ram it will only show what is available
I tried to argue that it should show what's installed as opposed to whats available but the stazi on the other end of the line wouldn't have it. Eventually I gave up.I checked on my XP desktop and sure enough it showed 512mb RAM which is what's installed. I then checked my Vista Samsung Laptop which has 2Gb and low and behold it showed 2048mb, again, which is what's installed.
It seems to me that the seller is pulling a fast one by only including 768 Mb instead of the advertised 1024Mb and then when they get the queries they bullshit their way around it. At this price level I would suspect that most buyers would probably not know there way around a computer so would never notice they had only 3/4's of the RAM they paid for.
So is it bull or is there a way that the RAM would show less than is actually installed.
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