Terry wrote:
>>
>> Walmart customer service is likely wrong. Depending on which system
>> function is doing the reporting, she could very well have 1G of
>> installed RAM with 256K taken up by the on-board hardware video
>> circuitry. In such case, Windows reports only the memory available
>> to it, which is !1Gig - 256K = 768K.
>
> She went to Acer's web site and it turns out that it is true that 256k
> is being used for video.
>
> They are just padding the numbers. It is a good thing she found this
> information before she packed it up and took it back for nothing.
>
> I guess not buying at Walmart is good advice.

If it's this one:

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5969100

She got a 2.4GHz machine with 160GB SATA drive. For $498.00 (with 17" LCD
monitor, keyboard, mouse, DVD drive, VISTA Home Basic, a bunch of crap
software, etc.)

Specifications on WalMart's web site include:

"256 MB shared graphics memory"