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Under what conditions would a 2GB upgrade to 4GB,
be wise/necessary? I was visiting new computer systems recently, and did plan a 4GB upgrade. However, the various retail pers- onnel think/know this is useless, without thinking about future uses such as 64bit, whatever Vista brings, multi- OS operation, etc... Thanks, Gary |
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"Gary Walker" wrote in message om... Under what conditions would a 2GB upgrade to 4GB, be wise/necessary? Just before upgrading to Vista, obviously. -Dave |
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In article , Gary
Walker says... Under what conditions would a 2GB upgrade to 4GB, be wise/necessary? I was visiting new computer systems recently, and did plan a 4GB upgrade. However, the various retail pers- onnel think/know this is useless, without thinking about future uses such as 64bit, whatever Vista brings, multi- OS operation, etc... Unless you are working with extremely large graphic files, at the moment 4GB is a bit overboard. I've just upgraded a computer for a signmaker who regularly deals with very large image file sizes and even 2GB is enough for that. Even the most memory hungry game I can think of, Battlefield 2, is quite happy with 2GB. -- Conor, Same ****, different day. |
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"Mike T." wrote in message reenews.net... "Gary Walker" wrote in message om... Under what conditions would a 2GB upgrade to 4GB, be wise/necessary? Just before upgrading to Vista, obviously. -Dave lol; |
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"Conor" wrote in message t... In article , Gary Walker says... Under what conditions would a 2GB upgrade to 4GB, be wise/necessary? I was visiting new computer systems recently, and did plan a 4GB upgrade. However, the various retail pers- onnel think/know this is useless, without thinking about future uses such as 64bit, whatever Vista brings, multi- OS operation, etc... Unless you are working with extremely large graphic files, at the moment 4GB is a bit overboard. I've just upgraded a computer for a signmaker who regularly deals with very large image file sizes and even 2GB is enough for that. Even the most memory hungry game I can think of, Battlefield 2, is quite happy with 2GB. -- Conor, Same ****, different day. Thanks Conor... |
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Under what conditions would a 2GB upgrade to 4GB,
be wise/necessary? Just before upgrading to Vista, obviously. -Dave lol; I wasn't trying to be funny. MINIMUM published specs. for Windows Vista to run in an XP-like mode are 512MB. In other words, the OS will be crippled with that little of RAM, according to Microsoft, and that's scary as Hell, when you consider the long history Microsoft has of greatly under-estimating hardware requirements for their OS. To run Vista with the new Aero interface smoothly, -Microsoft- recommends a minimum of 1GB of RAM "or more". So it would be wise to interpret that as the minimum recommendation by Microsoft for running Vista in non-crippled mode is 1.5 - 2GB of RAM. It's always been wise to at least DOUBLE the recommendation by Microsoft, though. So depending on how you interpret the "or more" of "1GB or more", the minimum required hardware config. for Vista would range from 3GB to 4GB of RAM. Is that a lot of RAM? Heck yes. But Microsoft operating systems are resource hogs, so 4GB isn't really all that much, if you are talking about Vista. -Dave |
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"Mike T." wrote in message eenews.net... Under what conditions would a 2GB upgrade to 4GB, be wise/necessary? Just before upgrading to Vista, obviously. -Dave lol; I wasn't trying to be funny. MINIMUM published specs. for Windows Vista to run in an XP-like mode are 512MB. In other words, the OS will be crippled with that little of RAM, according to Microsoft, and that's scary as Hell, when you consider the long history Microsoft has of greatly under-estimating hardware requirements for their OS. To run Vista with the new Aero interface smoothly, -Microsoft- recommends a minimum of 1GB of RAM "or more". So it would be wise to interpret that as the minimum recommendation by Microsoft for running Vista in non-crippled mode is 1.5 - 2GB of RAM. It's always been wise to at least DOUBLE the recommendation by Microsoft, though. So depending on how you interpret the "or more" of "1GB or more", the minimum required hardware config. for Vista would range from 3GB to 4GB of RAM. Is that a lot of RAM? Heck yes. But Microsoft operating systems are resource hogs, so 4GB isn't really all that much, if you are talking about Vista. -Dave Sorry !! those were my exact warnings(paraphrased) to the retail outlet personnel when they scoffed at my requ- est for the 2gb upgrade, with their comments on how it would never be needed/accessed, etc. My reading since then, and other comments from others here, have simply fortified my position. When it comes to Windows, memory is your friend. I certainly don't know the workings of Vista like you, but looking at the development history, it's safe to assume the requirements won't be declining. Thanks, for the clarification. Gary |
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