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To: Doren who wrote (70639)10/31/2007 4:51:15 PM
From: Stock Puppy  Read Replies (1) of 213182
 
While I agree with you, I disagree with the blanket statement

RAM will make everything else run faster.


and add to it this qualifier:

if your applications and system are pressed for RAM memory.

[hard to know when this is the case except when you get the spinning wheel a lot or hear the hard disk chug away each time you do something- but even then its not certain]

So long that everything fits into RAM, there is no slow down.
Once the system needs to swap (runs out of RAM) they as you say everything slows down.

512 MB running WIndows and OSX - you made the right call - 2GB will greatly improve speed.

An analogy to the above: take two identical cars, full of gas, same aptitude drivers, identical road conditions/traffic etc

but one car has a smaller gas tank.

If they both travel within the distance reachable by a small tank of gas, then they will arrive at similar time.

If the distance is further, the car with smaller tank will need to stop more times for gas and thus the with samller tank will be "slower".

I'm sure you know all this, but I have heard the statement that adding more memory will make the computer faster blindly stated by others - I just felt antsy today and wanted to vent :-) I might be running out of mental memory myself so my wheel is spinning as I swap....
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