[junior212]

Hi all,

I dont know much about laptops and there specs, but i do know the basics. Im just a little confused with a new laptop i purchased a few days ago.

I have a HP DV72045ea laptop. The specs are:

AMD Turion X2 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile Processor ZM-84 (2.3GHZ)
4GB memory.
250GB (5400) Hard Drive
17.3-in monitor
ATI Radeon HD4530 Graphics (512 Dedicated)
Windows Vista Home Premium
Windows index rating 4.6

Now when i check these specs on my computer i get a totally different specs.

Instead of 4GB ram i have only 3GB ram, and my hard drive is 196GB.

Can anyone tell me if all this is correct, is my comp using the remainder memory and hardrive space for programs on the comp?

Any way i can free up some memory and hardrive space for things i dont need?

Overall do you think this is a good laptop for basic needs and gaming?

[Hybr!d]

You show only 3GB of RAM as you are probably running 32Bit XP or Vista and 32Bit can only see 3ish GB.

Similar thing with hard drive, advertising says 250GB but a GB is actually 1024Bytes, so it is not exact, in reality the drive may only be 239GB, I guess you have lost some more due to filling some space up, are you sure you noted the full size not just the available space.

[Hybr!d]

Oh and gaming, nope, laptops just ent any good for that really, sims maybe.

[junior212]

Hi,

Thank you for getting back to me.

Well im getting this information from the HP website and my computer and the place i bought it from. Dont really know how it all works but those are the specs they have listed, and yes it is a 32bit vista.

Ok like i said earlier iv had this laptop for about 8 days now. Everything on the laptop has been working fine until today.

When i load up firefox and go on to a certain page, just say for example ebay, the whole comp freezes, i cant click on anything but i can see the mouse icon moving around. At the top of internet page, it says page not responding, it stays like this for a a mintue or so, then everything goes back to normal where i can open and close the page and browse around.

Now iv only download some movies, programs, and basic web surfing. Iv run norton scan twice within the last 8 days and its only ever found two tracking cookies.

For a new laptop it shouldnt really be doing this, throughout the whole day its been doing it, its pretty annoying.

Can anyone tell me what is wrong? and what i can do regarding hp or the place i bought it from?

[mctw]

i had that issue a while ago with firefox, really got annoying. do you have the latest version of firefox? current latest non beta version is 3.0.10

[junior212]

Hi,

Yes iv got the latest firefox 3.0.10, so its not anything to do with my laptop being faulty or anything?

[mctw]

dont believe so no, i never did manage to figure out quite what it was, but it did it on both my pc and laptop, so not a hardware issue. it went after a few days, hopefully someone else can enlighten you (and me) what causes it!