[yash101]

It can be taken either way. The device was meant to be expanded. I doubt that you'd use a computer without RAM and a Boot drive! This is something kind of complicated and maybe Al could clarify this for us because he is part of the inspection team.

We aren't building the RAM modules ourselves, neither the disk drive, so we are technically not modifying the computer. Just pull out the ram, wifi, bt and disk and the computer will be exactly as out of the box.

By the way, how much could I get a CHEAP set of 4GB RAM that will work? This wouldn't require anything special. The same would go for the SSD. This isn't something we will be using daily, so a cheap ssd will most likely cut it. Otherwise, maybe I could boot from a flash disk!