[AuckLUG] Buying a Laptop

[Matthew Diesch]

On 22/05/07, Guy K. Kloss <G.Kloss at massey.ac.nz> wrote:
>
> 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.


Particularly since I've started using virtual machines for things like the
occasional windows session I'm a big fan of lots of RAM. I'd certainly say
go 2 Gig if your budget allows it.
Just my 2c obviously