Max memory in Toshiba Satellite 1955-S803

Just a quick note about the laptop I use at work--a Tosihba Satellite 1955-S803. It is a bit old (2004?) with a Pentium 4. Anyway, the documentation I found online said this thing has a maximum 1GB of memory. It comes standard with 2 256MB sticks. Things were sluggish and the only memory I had available was a 1GB stick, so I popped it in place of one of the 256s and thought to myself: "Self, you should just leave that other 256 in there and see what the heck happens." I listened to myself. I assumed that nothing too bad would happen. Worst case I figured that the motherboard hardware just wouldn't recognize anything over 1GB, but would make use of up to that amount. Too my delight, Linux booted up just fine and checking /proc/meminfo showed me the full 1.25 GB was recognized. Awesome. So the moral of this engrossing tale is that you can't always trust the info from the folks selling you the equipment. Sometimes you can trust your overall knowledge of computer architecture. Now, I wouldn't try and shove all kinds of stuff that doesn't belong, but this was benign enough to try. As a quick aside, I think the system will take up to the full 4GB if I had 2 2GB sticks available. If I ever try that, I'll be sure to post about it. I know you can't wait.