i have 4gigs of ram. But Im not sure what the deal is . I mean i never really had problems with my dell i had for 4 years. Finally needed a new one. So i bought the hp maybe its cause i have not any updates but all i use it for over here is movies and music. Cant get online with it. Reading on the apple website the new macbook looks pretty sweet. "for the starbucks hang out" lol