1 Gb vs. 2 Gb RAM

Hi, all,

Have a question about RAM configurations for the Area-51m. In a society where more is almost always considered better, I am wondering why the Alienware Area-51m configurator states the system performs better with 1GB rather than with 2 GB of RAM. Seems to me the larger RAM might come in useful for future, more intense games/applications. Any thoughts on this subject?

Thanks to all who took the time to reply to my original post of this thread. Your responses have been helpful as I (and undboubtedly many others) continue to narrow down our choices for our next notebook purchase.

That said, I wish to respond to criticisms of this thread, namely the notion that it's creation and core question is redundant. I did, in fact, utilize the search function to try and locate another thread of this same topic to no avail prior to starting this thread. I most certainly did not wish to waste anyone's valuable time by adding to the many threads already in this forum. I would offer the suppostition that noone is born a computer expert. It is through the sharing of ideas that we each become a little more educated about this amazing hobby of ours. Being critical of the inquisitional nature of those of us who thirst for additional knowledge simply because the current thread's question has been previously posed is detrimental to this process of sharing thoughts and ideas.

The title of my thread made it's core question quite obvious. Unless the mere existence of such a post, redundant or otherwise, is stealing much needed bandwidth and memory from a forum member's PC, I would suggest this: if you find a thread or a post within tedious or redundant, simply do not reply. Resist the temptation of left clicking on that post title to save yourself valuable time. I can assure you those of us who sincerely pose questions to forum members in an earnest attempt to better understand computers and computing would prefer you save your time, as well. Posts to our threads which criticize the necessity of said thread's existence do little but discourage the future sharing of ideas in this forum.

In closing, I grow weary of those who take an elitist view regarding this invaluable forum. Those who have knowledge, but have little patience when it comes to sharing such information to those of us who know little, should carefullly choose which threads to read as to avoid causing themselves (and others) undo frustration.

Thanks, again, to everyone who initially replied in earnest to my original post.