Disappointment of ram upgrade

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I have recently bought a fantastic 17" widescreen Vaio (A197VP) and am mightily impressed with it, especially the display which is the best I have ever seen. However, I was very disappointed when I opened the bottom panel to add an extra 512mb ram only to find that I had to remove a 256mb card in order to do so.

Bang goes my 1gb ram and I just paid a very high price for just an extra 256mb ram. It seems to me that this is grossly unfair, as nowhere in any of the specifications does it state that the 512mb ram supplied is made up of two 256mb simms. So, in order to upgrade to 1gb I have to go out and buy another extremely expensive 512mb!!

Come on Sony, you can do better than this.

Happy but disappointed...

[danstijl]

I know very weird, and they are laughing because whe don't know and they do. Can only say..... x-files....

[kee-lo_]

I think it's because they make them in bulk for other companies so Sony buys them cheap and shoves them in VAIOs.

[danstijl]

I'll think so.... good one.

[kee-lo_]

Sony are like lazy office workers, if someone else can do it for them, why bother?

[jammold]

Still Panasonic and Toshiba are good brands - but I have *never* heard of QSI - they made the Optical CDRW/DVD drive - it has had *six* firmware patches in its lifetime, 4 by Sony and 2 by me (after Sony insisted on it)...

LOL - If it works I dont care if I find a battered beefburger inside it!

[kee-lo_]

I had one of their mobos back in 2000, wasn't good at all...