esteban
you're definitely welcome. glad the excerpt was helpful to you. it's going to be an asset to the cl thread to have winxp beta testers onboard, so we'll do what we can to keep you guys supplied with updates and what have you. <g3> your input to the thread on winxp will be very very cool.
as for the article's remark, "I'd choose a Pentium II 400 with 256MB of RAM over a Pentium 4 with 64MB of RAM any day", that sure makes sense to me as a basic concept, doesn't it to you?
as for "what level the cap is for extending performance. 128? 256? 384? 512?".... i'm wanting to say 256mb, but as soon as one proffers an opinion, it becomes obvious that the topic is like a moving target, impossible to hit precisely, due to so many variations, applications, configurations, etc. i'm running 256mb and i love the number of things i can do simultaneously (multiple browser windows open, listen to realplayer music or sports broadcast, downloading software, run virus scans, have firewalls running, system sensors, printer, etc. and never have to reboot for low resources). i must admit to still being taken aback by the idea of someone having 512mb of ram, which kind of shows how limited my computing experience really must be!
keep us posted
:)
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