32 or 64??

[Karl F. Larsen]

Steve Flynn wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>        I was disappointed you did not explain to us that it is
>> simply stupid to buy more ram so you can try 64 bit.
> 
> You do realise that you could simply  install the Ubuntu 64bit version
> on your exisiting machine without dropping 90 bucks on more ram.

	I got the impression from many emails on this list that you 
need at LEAST 4GB of RAM. I have no idea what it takes.




> 
> Have you checked that your motherboard will actually recognise more than 4 Gb?
> 

	It has 4 plugs for RAM so it will take that much. I just ran 
top and for some reason I have 1801764000 bytes of RAM now 
which if you simplify is 1.8 GB. I wonder why not 2.0 GB?


> P.S. what was the title for your thesis? I'd quite like to read it.
> 
> 


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