Thanks very much for your info!

I ordered 512mb RAM today from 4allmemory.com which was the only place I
could find that guarantees (money back) their memory to be compatible with
this model. Odds are fairly good that the slowdown problem I'm experiencing
is the paging file. The hard drive churns much more than it should, and more
RAM should fix that. I'll report back in a few days.

Incidentally, Compaq email tech support says the S4020WM and the S4020WM-B
are the same model and have the same specs. I don't know the reason for
the -B.
Euc1id

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Anybody else got one? I'd like to exchange experiences if you do. See if
we
have the same problems, etc.

The Presario S4020WM-B just went on sale at Walmart a few days ago fro
$498.
I jumped on it. There are some problems but it may be a keeper
nevertheless.
The AMD Athlon XP 2400+ processor running at 2.0GHz is a big plus for
one of
my applications. It only has 128MB RAM so that needs upgrading ASAP.
Euc1id

I got one about two weeks ago and have had no problems with it. First
day I bought 512MB more of RAM (Kingston KVR333/512R). It made things
tremendously better. I set the vitual memory settings to show around
1GB memory. Things have been running smoothly for me, just installed
Windows XP Service Pack 2 and all the critical upgrades today, no
problems. I've mainly used this computer to surf the net and burn
CD's though, no intensive applications to test it's capabilities.
Moral of the story, the best performance tip I can recommend is adding
the RAM, to any computer, it will greatly increase performace.

Jeff