My next Workstation

[Liam Proven]

On 9 July 2010 16:46, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 8 July 2010 18:11, Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net> wrote:
>>...
>>
>> Something else. Never skimp on memory. Use as much as possible or until your
>> dipping into the kids college fund, whichever comes first. Best investment
>> in computer performance.
>
> Is that true? I thought that provided you had 'enough' memory then
> additional memory will make little difference.

These days, for most people, this is true again as it was in the
1980s. 4GB is fairly affordable now and for general Internet/desktop
use it's plenty. I only make significant use of my 4GB when I'm
running VMs in VirtualBox.

If one does extensive manipulation of large photos or other media
files, more can be helpful, so long as OS and apps are both 64-bit.
32-bit code cannot access a chunk of memory larger than 4GB *even if
the system has PAE or some other extension*.

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