Life of a Sysadmin

The occassional trials and tribulations of a jack of all tr ades sysadmin in a startup in Silicon Valley

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December 2007

Dell laptop ram, or idiocy by some system builders

Let's say you order a laptop with a gig of ram. Let's further suggest that you paid extra to have that gig in the form of one stick of 1gb instead of two sticks of 512mb.

Now consider that many laptops have one ram slot under the keyboard and that slot is often annoying to get to, while the other slot is often readily accessible with the removal of a single screw on the bottom of the laptop.

With this knowledge, which ram slot would you expect the ram to be installed in? Can you guess which one Dell puts it in about half the time?