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    512mb vs 768mb

    Discussion in 'Fujitsu' started by sutheep, Apr 9, 2005.

  1. sutheep

    sutheep Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

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    Worth upgrading?

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    My logic is Windows XP likes 512 otherwise it does excessive paging (swapping) so I chose 768 to account for the shared video memory and leave me at least 512 meg left over. If there is a vid mem aperature setting in the bios I will choose the bigger of available options. Even though I won't be gaming with this thing, surfing itself can be graphically intensive.

    The thing stopping me from going higher was price. I could swing an extra $85, yet an additional $200 to 1 gig seemed excessive. Plus how usefull is that extra ram except for bragging rights if you will generally have no more than 3 programs running concurrently.

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    Thanx, I had 512 w/ this rig, and i took 256 from my old rig. Now the old crawls, so I have to put it back :( which is sad. Let see, I spent quite a fortune with this notebook, will probably wait a while before i buy a 256 stick.

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    I am fine with 512, but sometimes I go into excessive swapping after using some heavy programs. But that happens few tims that I found it ridiculous to pay for the price of 2x512 (currently I have 2x256, and I need 2 identicle modules for dual channel operation).

    My most usage is having some programming application open (usually MatLab) with some webpages (firefox), with a couple of PDFs, and ontop of that word, where I am typing a report or something, and winamp in the backgrnd playing some tunes. And I see no swapping when flipping between the different apps.

    If my work becomes more RAM intenssive or the upgrade becomes too cheap to not get, then...

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    Hey qwester, get Opera, I've been using it for a while, it's better than Firefox.

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