Guest shun0123 Posted July 25, 2007 Posted July 25, 2007 Please advise if installing more memory (from 768MB to 1024MB) for my Laptop PC with the following spec is worth it or not. Spec OS:Windows XP Home Edition CPU: Intel Celeron 2.0GHz Memory: 768MB (considering an installation up to 1024MB) Your comments are very welcome!!
Guest Owkmann Posted July 25, 2007 Posted July 25, 2007 Re: More memory for my Windows XP? No need unless you're having problems. XP does fine on 512 MB. "shun0123" <shun0123@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:658A49A4-2569-45EE-A0E6-5AD3225227BD@microsoft.com... > Please advise if installing more memory (from 768MB to 1024MB) for my > Laptop > PC with the following spec is worth it or not. > > Spec > OS:Windows XP Home Edition > CPU: Intel Celeron 2.0GHz > Memory: 768MB (considering an installation up to 1024MB) > > Your comments are very welcome!! >
Guest Patrick Keenan Posted July 25, 2007 Posted July 25, 2007 Re: More memory for my Windows XP? "shun0123" <shun0123@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:658A49A4-2569-45EE-A0E6-5AD3225227BD@microsoft.com... > Please advise if installing more memory (from 768MB to 1024MB) for my > Laptop > PC with the following spec is worth it or not. > > Spec > OS:Windows XP Home Edition > CPU: Intel Celeron 2.0GHz > Memory: 768MB (considering an installation up to 1024MB) > > Your comments are very welcome!! Why are you considering this? In "normal" use, you will probably see no difference. Do you run particularly memory-intensive apps? HTH -pk
Guest Ron Badour Posted July 25, 2007 Posted July 25, 2007 Re: More memory for my Windows XP? Adding more ram will only make the PC faster if it precludes the swap file from being used. -- Regards Ron Badour MS MVP 1997 - 2007 "shun0123" <shun0123@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:658A49A4-2569-45EE-A0E6-5AD3225227BD@microsoft.com... > Please advise if installing more memory (from 768MB to 1024MB) for my > Laptop > PC with the following spec is worth it or not. > > Spec > OS:Windows XP Home Edition > CPU: Intel Celeron 2.0GHz > Memory: 768MB (considering an installation up to 1024MB) > > Your comments are very welcome!! >
Guest Plato Posted July 25, 2007 Posted July 25, 2007 Re: More memory for my Windows XP? =?Utf-8?B?c2h1bjAxMjM=?= wrote: > > Please advise if installing more memory (from 768MB to 1024MB) for my Laptop > PC with the following spec is worth it or not. Yes, it is worth it. -- http://www.bootdisk.com/
Guest Gis Bun Posted July 25, 2007 Posted July 25, 2007 RE: More memory for my Windows XP? That would depend on your usage. Just Office, surfing and minor stuff not really. "Bigger" applications and it would help - but how much it would depend. "shun0123" wrote: > Please advise if installing more memory (from 768MB to 1024MB) for my Laptop > PC with the following spec is worth it or not. > > Spec > OS:Windows XP Home Edition > CPU: Intel Celeron 2.0GHz > Memory: 768MB (considering an installation up to 1024MB) > > Your comments are very welcome!! >
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted July 26, 2007 Posted July 26, 2007 Re: More memory for my Windows XP? On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:44:05 -0700, shun0123 <shun0123@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > Please advise if installing more memory (from 768MB to 1024MB) for my Laptop > PC with the following spec is worth it or not. Nobody can answer this question, other than saying that for *most* people 768MB is more than enough. This is *not* a one-size-fits-all situation. You get good performance if the amount of RAM you have keeps you from using the page file, and that depends on what apps you run. Most people running a typical range of business applications find that somewhere around 256-384MB works well, others need 512MB. Almost anyone will see poor performance with less than 256MB. Some people, particularly those doing things like editing large photographic images, can see a performance boost by adding even more than 512MB--sometimes much more. If you are currently using the page file significantly, more memory will decrease or eliminate that usage, and improve your performance. If you are not using the page file significantly, more memory will do nothing for you. Go to http://billsway.com/notes%5Fpublic/winxp%5Ftweaks/ and download WinXP-2K_Pagefile.zip and monitor your pagefile usage. That should give you a good idea of whether more memory can help, and if so, how much more. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup
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