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In article <BuDJsw.8t1@unx.sas.com>, sasbge@ant.unx.sas.com (Gantt Edmiston) writes:
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| I'm considering the purchase of a 486DX2 66MHz PC.  The seller (Gateway 2000)
| advertises that these systems are capable of being configured with a 
| maximum of 64MBytes of main DRAM memory.  Investigation has shown that
| their motherboards have four SIMM slots.  Currently, Gateway does not offer
| the 16MByte SIMMs.  In fact, their sales rep sez that they only have the
| 4MByte SIMMs so if I *did* purchase from them, I could currently only
| get a maximum of 16MBytes (four slots X 4MByte SIMM) total configured
| at this time.

  If you want to buy the system now with no memory and wait you will be
able to get the SIMMs in a year of so. No? I didn't think so. You can
get up to 8MB SIMMs right now, if that won't suit your usage go
elsewhere. I wouldn't buy a system with that few sockets anyway, but
that's just my opinion.

  The 33/66 is at a premium right now, and if you can wait a month or
two you will see lower prices and better selection. This doesn't sound
like a really good idea to me, since you might NEVER be able to get the
chips you need, or find that the cost of the upgrade is a ripoff.
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bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
    I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.