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I have to tell you that I almost feel bad about this…. almost.

I just purchased the Acer Asrpire One. I purchased it at the local Microcenter as it seems they are sold out everywhere else around here. I, of course, bought the one with the 8gb solid state drive, Linux (Linpus Lite) and 512mb of ram. Initially, however, I was giving serious consideration to buying the XP version and just installing Linux on that because that version comes with 1gb of ram for a mere $20 more. It didn’t have the solid state drive though, so it sort of loses something there.

I looked up online how to do a ram upgrade because I arbitrarily decided that 512mb of ram would not be enough for me – even though I hadn’t even used it yet. Better to be safe than sorry I suppose. Well, before I went to pick up the computer, I called to see if I bought the Linux version there, could I get them (Microcenter) to upgrade the ram for me. They said that they would do so for a measly $20. After watching the video (linked to above), I decided I would let them do so.

This is what I thought was so funny. In that video you see that you have to go through 3 or four layers of screws and such. You have to practically disassemble the entire machine to add that stick of ram. All that for $20. 🙂 I had to chuckle. Especially when, after a half hour at it, the salesman came and got me to tell me that “there was no place to add more ram in that laptop”. Quite to the contrary, I assured him that there was and he proceeded to take me in the back to the service table and ask me where the slot was. It was still underneath the main motherboard, which they hadn’t lifted up yet. I told them the instructions were on the web and helped them find them, lest I spend another couple hours there. They did finally get that ram in about a half hour later. Somehow I doubt they will be doing those ram upgrades for only $20 anymore 🙂