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I have owned a Dell, and 2 HPs, and we are in the process of buying a Campaq(an HP subsidiary). Personally I didn't care too much for the dell, upgrades tended to be more difficult to setup. HP for the most part is pretty easy to set up, and upgrades are MUCH easier to find, atleast here in my neck of the woods. I would suggest looking ath the video specifications. MOST all laptops use what is called SHARED memory for the video, this means that if you have 512 meg of ram, and the video uses 64 meg of SHARED ram, then your system really has only 448 meg of memory available. Laptops work best if you set up and use your virtual memory (uses hard drive space for temporary memory, not as fast, but allows bigger programs to be used on laptop). Aftermarket memory is cheaper to buy, than trying to get a laptop with the extra memory, but you should DEFINATELY check with the manufacturer to be sure you don't void the warranty. I know that HP will allow you to add more memory later on, as long as it is the same brand as what was in the system, and you have an HP authorized repair facility to install it. Even then sometimes it is chaper to do than to get the momory upgrade when you buy it, but I would check. Sometimes you get a lucky package deal closer to Christmas, because they are trying to sell out the prior years inventory for getting ready for the new years stock.
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