So I bought a FS742W yesterday >.> Few Questions

Well I'm a second year college student, and have been looking for a decent laptop for school, as well as for fun(naturally), been shopping around a bit. So I went to staples thursday, and saw they had a Vaio marked down from 1350 to 899 on clearance(which seems semi weird, but maybe a good deal). So friday I put some more money in my checking account, and decided to buy it after asking around a bit. Ended up getting another 10% off on it, which brought it down to 850(after tax).

Has a Pentium M running at 1.73GHz, 512 meg ram, 80 gig harddrive, and some stock "Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 900".

So yeah, I know its a slightly older model(which doesn't bother me a whole lot) So yeah generally is that a good deal? I went on thier website before I bought it, and tried to "customize" what I was planning to buy, and came to about 1099.


So yeah long story short after that, I"d like to throw in atleast another half gig of RAM, maybe if possible upgrade the graphics card, I've down both on PC before(yeah I'm sure almost everyone here has) but I have no idea when it comes to laptops or VAIOs which I heard are sometimes hard to upgrade.

 

Congrats on your purchase!

For that spec and brand, you did get a good price for it. You can be nice and smug while reading this cos you got a bargin on that machine.

Since you have saved a lot of money i would suggest taking it up to 1-1.5GB RAM and upgrading the hard drive to 7200 rpm to get the most from the processor.

Your system is definately old but is very useable. The PM is no pushover and im sure you will find it handles office/internet/DVDs absoluely fine.

Gaming is another issue. You have integrated graphics on that machine so games are a pretty much no go area. Check out a thread in the gaming forum to see which games you can play with integrated graphics, be warned though the quality will be very very low. Unfortuneately, the GPU cannot be upgraded so im afraid to say you are stuck with it. As long as you dont game you should be fine.

 

I didn't really want to play anything too requiring, was playing Command and Conquer Generals last night(which isn't remotely a high spec games) and plays perfect(better then it does on my PC for sure) so I'm happy.

Edit: Yeah found the topc you were talking about, all sounds about right. TY.