Pemalite said:
fillet said:
All well and good but have you actually tried this in theory.
Go and compare system performance with 1GB and 2GB in Windows 7, it's clear that 1GB isn't enough even for basic web browsing with the OS stripped to the bones of any service except ones that are critical to the OS running.
Only the other day I spent £20 on 2 x 1GB SODIMMs for my parents laptop and they only use it for web browsing and - nothing - else. They noticed a massive difference, when a system is caching to disk just browsing the web, the OS doesn't have enough RAM.
1GB - no chance that will run on Windows 7 without extreme aggrevation.
I agree, and a big part of the reason for me posting about the 8GB of RAM making graphics better. No chance when that 8GB RAM is being bolted onto an AMD 7850 hybrid.
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Nah. 1Gb is enough, you do need a fast storage medium though and a light virus scanner. (Like nod32, written in machine code, uses bugger all ram.)
My grandmother has 1gb of ram in her Desktop, running Windows 7 and it's more than enough for simple photo editing and printing, word processing and emails and some light web browsing.
However, your parents also have a laptop, 99% of the time they have a slow 4200/5400rpm hard drive, rather than the 7200rpm drives that are common place on Desktops, it's also why most of the time systems feel slow.
Mechanical Hard Drives should be banned as primary storage devices in PC's, period.
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Good for backups man :P HDDs technically last longer and data can be recovered much easier lol. I wouldn't use SSDs for my server other than the main drive for faster boot in case of failure which is backed up to one of the HDDs too.
