She bought it last C'mas or slightly before. How sure are you that this is the case? She gave her old laptop to her husband and they travel in an RV and she's noticed how much easier it is for her husband to find a connection. He even teases her about it. She uses it for PS Elements, email, etc. Nothing so intensive. Pat On Jul 10, 2006, at 6:12 PM, Angus Wallace wrote: > >> She has 512 ram and is having it taken to 1G. It's a new one, >> by the way. > > That is indeed a pity. Unless she has many RAM-intensive applications > (for > example: video editing, multi-track music recording, high-end > scientific > analysis, etc) open at once, it's unlikely she'll notice any > difference at all. > It's probably worth her trying to renige on that if she can - she > could cite > misleading advice as her reason.