How much RAM do you have in your notebook? 2010-2011 EDITION

using 64bit powerdirector, pr and ae cs5. my 8 gig of ram is barely enough for 720p edits. ill probably be getting 2x8gig's after i upgrade my cpu , and when they become more available.
outside of video editing, the ram makes me multitask more. i can have a game, my browser with many tabs, ps, my media player, ms office, and a chat program open all at once.

 

My Asus has 4GB RAM. I'll probably go to 8GB when I have more time to do video editing.

 

I got 8 GB just in case of anything, such as not having the budget to do it later after I upgrade my CPU to the new Sandy Bridge, Also in case I after I upgrade my HDD to a SSD. Just preparing for the future

I just hope my lappy doesnt take a crap on me anytime soon

 

4gb corsair
guess its enough for win 7......and other progies

 

6GB here on Win 7 Pro x64. I bought my 4GB stick when they were still $110. If I had known they'd be down to $60 so quickly I would've waiting and bought 2 of em. I need more than 4GB for virtual machines/CS5 at work. Never maxed out all 6GB but I find, the more the merrier as long as I'm not weighing myself down with more DIMMs.

 

Going from 4gb to 8gb today after reading this thread
Time to update the signature!

 

When I bought my laptop it was primarily intended to be used as an HD video and photo editing learning tool. For that reason, maximizing the RAM was an absolute necessity. Since then, I've only begun learning the CS4, so I haven't been watching the RAM usage that closely. However, I do remember it took about 4 GB on the fire effect I created.

In normal web use though (with background) it's around 2 GB--which increased when I upgraded for the OEM 4 to 8?

 

nows a great time to go 8gb

http://forum.notebookreview.com/notebook-tech-bargains/535459-heads-up-8gb-2x4gb-ddr3-90-a.html

 

I polled here at 4GB but I'll soon be 8GB, got mine from the NewEgg deal.....

 

Adding additional RAM may improve your Windows Index score (it did mine), but unless you have 64 bit OS and a program that will actually utilize it, anything beyond 4 GB will be a useless addition.

 

Not true Krane,

Even a 32bit system can benefit from a huge RAM resource.

See:
Memory Upgrade: Is It Time To Add More RAM? : Introduction

 

I've got 2.5GB in my Latitude. Soon to be 4GB.

 

But that needs to be huge so it can be used effectively as a RAM disk(4G+) or their needs to be a good program that can make use of the 4G+ RAM as cache of some sort.

So personally I won't bother to add anything beyond 4G for 32 bit OS as the effort in utilizing it out weight the gain.

 

4063 MB usable in Windows 7 Ultimate x64, always wondered what the BIOS is using 33MB for though, I don't feel too bothered to try figuring out

 

My new laptop has 8. I'm not sure how necessary it is, but the price difference between 6 and 8 was low enough that I figured I should just get 8.

 

I don't think you read the article?

 

What do you mean ?

 

From the same link above.

 

And that was exactly what I meant. Any extra RAM can only be used as some form of RAM DISK and it needs a program to be able to access it in the first place(via PAE).

For example SQL Server can access these PAE addressable RAM and used it as its own memory buffer(which significantly improve the performance). A RAM DISK or cache manager would need to do the same.

The problem is that if it is a RAM DISK, the size needs to be pretty large or else I may be hitting the 'disk full' message before other things. Like if I have a 2GB RAM DISK and use it as IE temp location then download a DVD image, I would be in trouble.

If it is a cache manager like eboostr(?), I have to be very sure that it is very stable as a general purpose block device cache manager is touching the very fundamental component of the OS(not saying eboostr is not, just I have no experience with it).

That is what I meant the effort out weight the gain. If my machine is 64 bit capable, I would just switch to 64 bit OS. Otherwise(like my T2350 Core Duo), I would rather spend the money on something else(say a SSD), if at all.

 

An SSD cannot give you up to ~71% performance improvement though in certain games and up to ~19% faster PS speed increases.

Just saying.

More RAM = More Work done

Faster HD/SSD = More snappiness

 

That is assuming those RAM can be used in a 32 bit system. As I mentioned before, if the program(say some game) can use them, sure the gain is significant like my SQL server example. But that requires special coding.

Otherwise, they can only be used to enhance the 'snappiness' via RAM DISK or as PAGE FILE where you have multiple applications open and their aggregate total memory footprint exceed 3GB.

Edit:

BTW, where do you see the gain you mentioned for a 32 bit OS ? I can only see a 10-15% gain using a 8GB swap.