Benefits of Adding 512MB to M45-S351

I wasn't sure what the difference would be in raising the M45-S351 to 1024MB. Well, it may be psychological but one of the benefits appears to be richer colors, particularly the darker colors like blue, red. The Tru-Brite screen is even more impressive. Text is more defined and generally sharper.

Other improvements -- faster Internet surfing; applications like Aluria and other software really fly; faster operation when I have several applications open at the same time and moving between them.

It will be interesting if I notice an improvement when I use Dragon Naturally Speaking.

Increasing ram beyond 1024MB appears to be prohibitively expensive. However, I am curious if anyone has made that jump with a M45-S351 and found that there were observable improvements?
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brighter screen colors? hmmm, there's no correlation between RAM available and screen color so I think there's something psychological or a coincidence of some sort going on with that. More RAM can net you better performance no doubt, accessing RAM is much faster than the hard drive. Since hitting the hard drive takes more work, you'll also save on battery life by having more RAM, not an oft thought of fact. Having said that, certainly software are more RAM hungry than others, and after a point you'll find that unless you're using RAM hungry applications then a lot of the RAM you have just won't get used.

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