I'm doing a hardware eval of a few low-cost laptops from various vendors; one of them is a new AMD A4 3300-series Llano dual core setup from HP. I can't immediately find any information in the firmware, but is there a way to reduce the reserved memory space for the video?
Right now the system has reserved 512Mb, and to be quite frank, we have no use for it. The device will be used as a web portal learning tool, so it will get a bit of exercise doing video decode and acceleration and whatever minor effort is needed to run Win7 aero glass. The reality is, we have no use for 512Mb of ram -- so buying a config with 2Gb leaves us with about ~1.47Gb usable when the box starts, which is non-optimal for a few reasons.
I'd rather keep the hardware and figure out a way to have it reserve less ram, but I can find basically NO documentation on this. Is it even possible? If not, we may scrap this hardware and go with a cheap i3 rig that we can actually get 2GB of usable ram.
Right now the system has reserved 512Mb, and to be quite frank, we have no use for it. The device will be used as a web portal learning tool, so it will get a bit of exercise doing video decode and acceleration and whatever minor effort is needed to run Win7 aero glass. The reality is, we have no use for 512Mb of ram -- so buying a config with 2Gb leaves us with about ~1.47Gb usable when the box starts, which is non-optimal for a few reasons.
I'd rather keep the hardware and figure out a way to have it reserve less ram, but I can find basically NO documentation on this. Is it even possible? If not, we may scrap this hardware and go with a cheap i3 rig that we can actually get 2GB of usable ram.