SZ - 1GB Ram to 2GB Ram - Noticable Difference?

I am contemplating upgrading the ram on the laptop from 1gb to 2gb.

my question is, is there a noticable difference in the GENERAL performance of the laptop? (not necessarily games)

thanks!

 

Yes it's a huge difference. Upgrading from 256MB 2 512MB is a noticeable difference.

 

What are you using your computer for? If it's not a whole lot more than email, Internet, Word, etc. you won't really notice a difference. 1 gig is plenty. If you're using design software like Adobe/Macromedia, or performing other tasks where your HDD would be accessed very frequently, then you might notice an improvement in performance.

 

maybe a dozen conversation, microsoft word, excel, MSN ICQ AIM SKYPE, and a few webpages, emails, etc...

 

What about video editing programs? Maybe with a browser and some conversations up?

Is it worth the upgrade.

 

definitely, bought my 2gb at fry's for $220. If you dont think it helps you, ram is always returnable.

 

No its not worth it.
I have 512 MB ram, and I'm totally fine.
I'm currenty running
1)firefox web browser with about 30 tabs (that is 30 web pages simultaneously)
2)Opera web browser with about 15 tabs.
3)Acroread
4)2 ghostview windows.
5)Video player
6)7 terminals
7)Azureues

Save the money, spend it next time on a new laptop in bumping up the quality level like getting a bigger screen etc.
I have mentioned this in another thread:
256->512 BIG BIG difference
512->1GB some difference
1GB ->2GB not much, if at all, unless you are doing heavy gaming or heavy engineering apps.

For you application usage, 512MB is more than enough.
1GB is overkill.
2 GB is, well, Paris Hilton extravagent.

 

I have only had experience with dvd ripping and video encoding. I have 512MB CPU and HDD were the bottleneck, not RAM.
For video editing, the same data doesnt need to be accessed often (which is the only case where speeup occurs due to RAM). Its more like, pull some data from HDD, work on it, then forget about it, never to be accessed again.

Save the money, spend it on next round of laptops.
For your app usage, 1GB is more than enough

 

No, not quite true, for improvement, the same data must be accessed often.
If he is burning a dvd from files for example, there wont be any benifit. The data needs to be pulled from HDD, and adding RAM is not gonna change that.

Games may access same data over and over - for example, from frame to frame, the data change is not all that much, but the data/frame is quite large, and must be modified like 25 times/sec ; thus all the data in a frame must be in RAM for good performance.

256 MB is not all that great because the operatiing system takes up a chunk, and then the browsers take up another large chunk, thats why the big improvement from 256->512.
Think about it, the operating system is a MASSIVE program - with many threads etc, other programs are tiny in comparison (unless games or very special applications)
After 512, its really heavy duty apps which will need more memory.

 

I just pulled 2 x 512mb memory out to upgrade to 2 x 1g memory. Anyone interested in buying 2 x 512 for $90 US currancy let me know. Paypal or whatever works.

 

512mb is not enough. Atleast 1 gig is recommended. You will see huge improvment.