> That's odd as both Dell support and Memorystock say that the Inspiron N5050
> can take 8GB of ram.

  I suspect that this kind of issue may be quite common.  I have two
netbooks, one frome Acer and one from Gateway, and the Acer took an
upgrade from 1GB to 2GB with no problem, but I got the specific 2GB
SO-DIMM that Crucial recommended for the Gateway model, and it still
stubbornly recognizs only 1GB....

David Gillett

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