[Info-vax] Some good news !

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>> Steven Underwood wrote:
>>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>>> I have heard nothing about Vista that would make me want to 
>>>> upgrade.  If and when I get a new PC, I may very well just install 
>>>> W/XP on it!
>>>
>>> I agree there is nothing to cause me to upgrade from XP on my other 
>>> machines, but Apple advertisements not withstanding, I have not seen 
>>> any major problems with Vista on machines designed for it.  I got my 
>>> laptop with my new job with Vista Ultimate, and other than needing to 
>>> max out the memory to get better than OK performance, I have had no 
>>> issues at all with it. IMO, Microsoft's mistake was in setting the 
>>> required memory value too low. 2 GB should have been minimum with 4 
>>> GB recommended.
>>
>> Talk about software bloat!!  My W/XP system runs quite happily in one 
>> GB.   My wife's PC has less memory, I think, and it also runs W/XP 
>> without problems.
> 
> And?
> 
> 2 GB cheap memory (DDR2 dual channel PC6400) costs around 20-30 dollars.
> And 4 GB of the same 30-40 dollars.
> 
> HW evolves.
> 
> 1 MB - 4 MB - 32 MB - 512 MB - 2 GB - 8 GB - ....
> 
> I don't see any reason why that trend should stop at 1 GB.
> 
> Arne

I have 1 GB.  I could add three more 1GB DIMMs but what would it do for 
me?  Besides lightening my wallet by $30 or $40?

I reiterate: everything I need or want to do with the system can be done 
  with the memory I now have.  If something could be done in 1/4 of a 
second instead of 1/2 of a second . . .  what does it buy me?   If I 
needed to do it 10,000 times a day I'd seriously consider maxing out the 
memory.  I don't see that happening.