[AuckLUG] Buying a Laptop

[Guy K. Kloss]

On Tue, 22 May 2007 11:33:25 am John O'Gorman wrote:
> I don't see much or any benefit coming from installing more RAM, but
> then I don't play games on it! If the machine is not paging or swapping
> then you won't get a benefit from more RAM - the extra will simply be
> allocated for file buffering.

Depends on what you want to do. As a software developer running Eclipse I want 
to have all the RAM I can get. A box at home running KDE on Ubuntu Feisty 
with Eclipse on 768 MB of RAM just barely makes it, but is not fun at all. At 
the office I've got two boxes with 2 GB each, and it's a real pleasure.

So an advice that may be somewhat general, but should work: Get 1 GB of RAM, 
that's sufficient for many/most cases running Linux (Wintendo tends to need 
2x the amount to "feel allright" (it never feels good!)). If things should 
behave sluggish, get another Gig of RAM.

Guy

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