@Dakota
Well in most cases, notebooks have one fixed and one exchangable, these are usually limited to 12xx memory (1.2 gigs or so). One onboard and one expansion slot. Most people don't realize how insanely easy it is to install memory (and if you screw it up, how easy it is to take it to the IT office and say "whoops err it's not working") on a notebook. And in the case of schools supplying computers, if it's yours for whatever amount of time, then (atleast in my case when I worked IT for MSU) if you brought it to the office and said "I have X class and the laptop doesn't have enough memory" then you supply the module which we'd help you pick out if needed, install it, document it, and let you be on your way.
Alot of newer notebooks though are running on 2 expansion bay modules, which will allow two 1 gig sticks to be installed. Hell even the ones with one fixes and one expansion, 1 gig is plenty. For example my ibook, I have 1 fixed and one expansion, iI had 512 (2x256) for awhile, it was nice but kinda slow so I dropped a 512 from an old HP in there for temp measures, brought it up to 768. nice but still abit sluggish, so I recently bought a gig stick, installed it, bringing it up to 1280 and it's been great ever since.
Moral of the story, any 'modern' notebook can be made faster, except the blue light special ones, but most 'name brand' tablets aren't bluelight special and are designed for the applications you'll use. The exception I guess would be the HP you mentioned, which seems to be the cause in all but their high end dealies (which weigh a ton I should add)
I'd like to add about the fujitsu tablet I listed. Most 12inch tablets achieve their small size by not including an optical drive. Which to me is a must, especially one that boots to CD. (Most tablets don't include USB boot options in the BIOS excluding an external) Not only that I hate carrying around external equipment. Anyways, the optical bay is modular, which means you can put whatever item you want in there, which is great. Especially when the items are things like batteries, optical drives, harddrives, etc. Eliminates the need for battery swapping, external harddrives, so on and so forth.
Edit: I'd also like to see how 1-note runs on a dual core notebook running DDR2. 512 should be sufficient running a system like that, except (and I'm not 100% sure on this) I don't think there are any tablets made with the dualcore. Most tablets will use the low voltage P-m or maybe centrino. But most tablets do come in DDR2 standards and atleast a 1.7 or higher processor which is much faster than a 1.2/512 DDR system. I'd kill for a dual core tablet though.
