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03-31-2008, 12:44 AM
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| How Much Memory For Vista 64 I didn't need to be sold on a 64-bit version of Windows...all the internal buffers are larger than the 1988-1992 sized one in the 32-bit version (you may remember those days when the computer had a 16-bit OS, 16MB was a lot of RAM, and 110MB (yes MB) was a big hard drive. When NT came out I had to buy a CD drive and 2GB SCSI drive that cost $2000. Well, the new computer currently has 4GB. 5-500gb disks provide 2TB of RAID5 for $500. 1,000 times the storage for 1/4 the price! However, it seems to effortless run multiple Adobe products at the same time. Can I have everything open at once? Edit text in Word, tables in Excel, images in Photoshop, video in Premier, maybe Flash also, and just move between them? Maybe Lightwave at the same time for some 3D stuff? The memory issues in XP 32 has forced me to close applications I'm not using. Maybe no longer a problem? In XP 2-3 Photoshop products seemed to be a problem. If they all run, is 4GB enough? If I want to run Apache, MyEclipse, and MySQL also (to run the web environment locally), maybe it should be bigger? The memory is cheap (the extra 2GB is under $100), but is it worthwhile? |
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04-04-2008, 05:52 AM
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| There is a great article on Tom's hardware which shows a good performance increase using 8GB of RAM with no page file. Vista Workshop: More RAM, More Speed | Tom's Hardware crabby |
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04-04-2008, 07:05 AM
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| Crabby.. That was indeed a Great Read... Thanks for shareing somethg as such... Keep it going.. Take Care Microsoft Certified Technical Support I |
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04-04-2008, 10:57 AM
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| Yes, the Tom's read is very good. Besides memory being cheap, it was the main reason I went with 8 GB (see sig)--not that I really need it often (if ever).
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