lost of 8MB of RAM on my

[Kiyan Zadeh]

Hi,

I recently bought a new laptop from toshiba, and it should have 512MB
of RAM but in the sytem properties it tells me that I have 496 MB of
RAM.

What could be the reason for it?

thanks

[Bev A. Kupf]

On 21 Sep 2003 12:59:32 -0700,
Kiyan Zadeh (kiyan@zadeh.name) wrote:

> I recently bought a new laptop from toshiba, and it should have 512MB
> of RAM but in the sytem properties it tells me that I have 496 MB of
> RAM.

Wrong group. Try one of the PC hardware groups.

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Bev A. Kupf
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[Tom Stiller]

In article <8bde6731.0309211159.7e3fa741@posting.google.com >,
[email]kiyan@zadeh.name[/email] (Kiyan Zadeh) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I recently bought a new laptop from toshiba, and it should have 512MB
> of RAM but in the sytem properties it tells me that I have 496 MB of
> RAM.
>
> What could be the reason for it?
>
> thanks

Why would you ask that question in a Mac newsgroup?

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Tom Stiller

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[iMeowbot]

In article <8bde6731.0309211159.7e3fa741@posting.google.com >,
[email]kiyan@zadeh.name[/email] (Kiyan Zadeh) wrote:

> I recently bought a new laptop from toshiba, and it should have 512MB
> of RAM but in the sytem properties it tells me that I have 496 MB of
> RAM.
>
> What could be the reason for it?

It's probably got one of those cheesy DirectAGP style video chips that
leech off the system RAM. Maybe you should trade it in for a Powerbook?