yea, I Upped my memory to 2GB's and it's very good... actually I don't even actually have 2GB because 128MB's is being used by the onboard video... so i have 1920MB's of RAM but it works very good. ;) even though I have onboard GeForce 6150 video(I will be getting a better video card soon, I want to wait for the mid-range DirectX 10 cards to come out) onboard Video is fine for now, I can watch DVD's and do basic 3D Modeling just fine with this card not hurry. ;)
The DRM stuff, ehhh... use AnyDVD... what DRM... IF you don't like Media Player 11 Don't use it use Media Player Classic... If you don't like the other stuff.... its "software" fix it the way you want.. sheesh...
I was given the impression that DRM was systemic. Is it only associated with Windows Media Player?
I hate it when they do that. We got in 100 PCs at work and every single one of them had their 128MB video memory pull from system memory. I tried to get my boss to send every dammed one of them back, but he refused. For some reason they never informed us of that "feature" when we were evaluating that purchase. I'm sure in the specs they had some murky jargon to identify it. What really made me mad was the eval PC they sent to us didn't do that. They claimed that their design changed during our evaluation, and we got the latest model release.
The horrible DRM restrictions don't kick in unless you're playing the next-gen DRM'd media, like HD-DVD. When you do that, you're screwed -- you've read that paper, right? Your $$$$ professional workstation Quadro card isn't DRM-aware, so you have to dump it for a cheap DRM-aware card if you want to watch HD-DVD? The high-quality digital audio out to your $$$$ stereo system got disabled by the DRM, and you're told to use the analog ports? WTF? Microsoft wrote Vista for Microsoft and the studios/labels, not the users.