How much would the battery life drop with 4GB of RAM and Windows 64 Bit installed. Can it and does it run well?
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This statement is no longer accurate. Due to BIOS updates, the full 4GB of memory is now accessible.
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Ram - 2 GB, HDD - 74.4 GB, Battery lasts 1 to 3 hrs depending on type of usage
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You coul but you would not be able to use all your Ram memory and the whole power of the equipment. If you want to use XP, I would install the 64 version of it.
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Nevermind - I've since put Windows 7 Home Premium on this computer and it runs like a champ. No slow-downs, slightly better battery life and quick boot up/shut-down times. I'm happy!
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As long as your on 64 bit you'll get up to 16GB of memory. It will max at 1600Mhz.
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Maybe 2 hours on battery saving mode if your lucky. If battery life is a concern I'd look elsewhere. This computer is mostly a desktop replacement.
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It's OK. But my recommendation will be upgrading the ram memory. If you add more RAM will be fine
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This is very good laptop overall, just Windows 7 are slowing it down quite a bit ( despite 3 GB of RAM installed).If you gonna use this I recommend replacing Windows w/ Linux ( I use Lubuntu very light & efficient free OS).
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There is 8GB of RAM. The computer is solid it's just sometimes the scroll (two-finger scroll) on the mouse pad goes out randomly. And the battery life is not exceptional. Other than that its perfectly fine.
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Honestly, the RAM is plenty unless you're trying to game with this Chromebook. Remember, the Chrome OS has no "services" and all the STUFF running in the background that Windows has. 2GB with this processor, and this Chromebook, is not just quick, but fast.
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Not at all it works perfectly and fast! The only downside is battery life which can be fixed by keeping it plugged I'm at all times and running high performance mode. As long as you know how to navigate windows 8 everything's good
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I roll with a 600, it does fine.thats with 16gigs of ram and a hard drive with and ssd and an overclocked CPU
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Yes. Yes it can. Running 64gb of ram and glad it can take full advantage of it
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Hi. I have owned this laptop for a couple of months now and it is amazing. The average battery life I am getting while running wifi and having the brightness about 3/4 bright, I am getting 5 1/2 hours. With wifi off running regular programs like Word, Excel and Powerpoint, I am getting about 6-6/12 hours. Amazing battery life
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I have a good review of this laptop. It runs surprisingly fast with a 2nd generation processor and 8Gb Ram. Boot time from off is less than a minute. I use it 16 hours a day and never have issues with it.
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What operating system do you plan on using? Windows 7 64 Bit= probably not, unless you are playing high end games or using CAD related programs. Windows 8= it would be worth the investment. I'm running 16 Gb of RAM with a Sabertooth on a high demand CAD machine with Windows 7, and the performance is outstanding. I'm also running 8 Gb of RAM on a Sabertooth with Windows 8 in a Premiere/After Effects/Photoshop environment and I'm purchasing 8 more Gb's to improve the performance.
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I use it for everything except movie watching (I use a chromecast for that). Battery life is actually pretty good. It does not handle super graphics intense games, but It can run Sims 3 for example on the fastest speed with pretty good ease. More graphics intense games would probably struggle a bit or need to have settings lowered. I have been able to play games for at least two hours (maybe three) without the battery going dead. Web browsing and word processing could last a much greater amount of time.