Need advice about Satellite Pro M40

I wonder if anyone could advise me. We have just purchased 8 Smart boards for our school With these I ordered 8 SatProM40 laptops. When I ordered them I checked the spec as follows
Toshiba SatProM40 - Celeron M360 1.4 GHz - RAM 256MB - HD 40GB - CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo - Mdm - Lan EN - FAST EN - Win XP Pro - 15.4" TFT.
I checked before I ordered that the RAM was 256 because I had heard that this is the mininimum recommended to run XP.
The laptops take almost 5 minutes to turn on and everything takes an age to work it is really frustrating and they are totally unusable for our school because all the lesson is taken up with getting the computers to run anything.
I checked the System information and found the laptops were running of 192Mb of RAM and rang the supplier. I was told that they used 64MB for the graphics card and therefore they had supplied a 256MB RAM computer.
My question to anyone who can help is:- is this normal practice. If I knew this I would have ordered a laptop with more RAM to compensate.
Any advice that would help us get our children working on their new computers would be gratefully received. Thank you.

Hi Lisa
In my opinion Satellite Pro M40 is nice unit for school work but I agree with you that 256 MB is really minimum RAM and I recommend you to buy more 256 MB or even 512 MB, depending on your budget.
Compatible RAM modules are:
PC2700 256MB (PA3311U-2M25)
PC2700 512MB (PA3312U-2M51)
Problem is that this unit use shared memory and that means that RAM will be also used for graphic. If there is someone who has good PC knowledge let them check all running processes. Many of them are useless and can be disabled. I have also noticed that preinstalled Antivir application (Norton) slow down running OS rapidly. If all units are not connected to the internet I recommend you to remove it.
By the way: there are many good antivir applications who runs well and dont slow down the running OS.
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