Dell went el-cheapo on me

November 16, 2006

I ordered a 512MB DDR2 SO-DIMM yesterday to upgrade my laptop to 1GB of RAM to better run Vista… Or so I thought.

Apparently, my Inspiron 6000 has 2 SO-DIMM slots. Dell went el-cheapo on me, filling both slots with 256MB :(.

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  1. You should have researched first. Usually that’s how it is for laptops.

    Comment by Eugenia — November 16, 2006 @ 10:49 am

  2. Nonsense. I’ve owned several laptops, and this Dell is the first to have this. Compaqs, Apples, they never had it. Neither do my friends’ laptops.

    Comment by Administrator — November 16, 2006 @ 11:16 am

  3. Contact your Dell representative and have it fixed. I also dont understand your comment you say you already had 516mb , you buy 516 more and you end up with two 256mb.

    Someone stole 516mb from you , or there is a lot missing from your explanation.

    Comment by Horizon-riche — November 16, 2006 @ 2:36 pm

  4. You don’t get it. I have ordered a 512MB RAM stick, but I opened my laptop last eve and found out both of its RAM slots are filled with 256, instead of just one with 512MB as they are supposed to.

    Comment by Administrator — November 16, 2006 @ 2:52 pm

  5. There’s an up side, which is that dual channel is enabled. I’m sure it helps the onboard video a lot.

    It shouldn’t cost you that much to replace the two 256MB sticks with another 512MB one, should it?

    I have to agree with Eugenia, in my experience this is not that uncommon. You should always check the memory slots (there’s software for that) before buying memory.

    Comment by thebluesgnr — November 16, 2006 @ 8:52 pm

  6. >Compaqs, Apples, they never had it.

    You are wrong. Most cheap-to-midrange are like that. Even my Powerbook was like that too. It came with 256 MBs of RAM, 128+128. When I upgrade the RAM, I THREW AWAY one of its 128 MBs. Other Apple laptop models were like that too.

    Cheap-ish Dells, HPs too.

    Comment by Eugenia — November 16, 2006 @ 10:38 pm

  7. When you configured the laptop, weren’t you given a choice as to how many dimms you wanted, i.e. 2x 256 or 1x 512? I bet if you dig up your invoice you’ll see the former. 1 512 is much more expensive than 2 256’s, if they fix it for free I’ll be very surprised.

    Comment by jayson knight — November 17, 2006 @ 9:50 am

  8. There’s an up side, which is that dual channel is enabled. I’m sure it helps the onboard video a lot.

    My laptop has dedicated video RAM (128 MB of it) for its Radeon x300.

    You are wrong. Most cheap-to-midrange are like that.

    If I am wrong, then how come I’ve never encountered it before? Look Eugenia, I have owned/serviced A LOT of laptops, and I’ve NEVER seen this sort of el-cheapo behaviour.

    When you configured the laptop, weren’t you given a choice as to how many dimms you wanted, i.e. 2x 256 or 1x 512?

    This laptop is a gift, so I wouldn’t know.

    Comment by Administrator — November 17, 2006 @ 1:33 pm

  9. >then how come I’ve never encountered it before? L

    You were LUCKY.

    Comment by Eugenia — November 17, 2006 @ 8:33 pm

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