HP Released a BIOS Update for this model. If you go into the BIOS and disable PlayReady in the graphics section at the far right of the BIOS menu, you will recover 1 gig of lost System Ram. Still won't let you play a game or application that requires 8 gigs of system Ram on the stock system, but I guess if a program randomly only requires 7 gigs, you are sitting pretty (I know of no program that requires exactly 7 gigs of system RAM).
