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[Sil Greene <quack AT ibiblio.org>]

from Bill Geschwind:
> Also, the screen is noticeably dimmer when running on battery
> power than when running when plugged in.

Bill, have you tried manually increasing your brightness?  My laptop (and 
many others) will automatically set the brightness lower when shifting 
from wall-power to battery, but I can use the brightness hotkeys to 
adjust it upwards if I want.  It does eat into the battery life pretty 
quickly though.

I'd be surprised if yours actually has a lower upper-brightness-limit when 
on battery than when on wall-power, but if that's the case, let us know.



> buying RAM I am very partial to www.crucial.com).
> Even though XP can run on less than 256 MB of RAM, I wouldn't try it 
> with less than that, and ideally not with less than 384 MB of RAM, and 
> since that laptop likely uses shared RAM for video it will have less 
> than 256 MB available for the operating system if it comes with 256 MB 
> installed.

I looked at the specs of the Presario and they did claim that the 
32mb of video ram was "dedicated", which should mean it's in addition to 
the 256mb of system ram.  "Should", unless HP marketing has redefined the 
term "dedicated".  :-/

I believe Colleen mentioned they had a video card upgrade available,
with 64mb ram, for $25.  HP's website indicates this is a separate
video card (the 32mb is a GeForce 420, the 64mb is a 440), but who
knows.  The 25 clams could be Office Despot's service charge for 
changing the BIOS' shared video ram setting from "32" to "64".


--S