Jeff, There is a diminishing return in adding more memory for the kinds of things you are doing. You may of course be able to have even more applications open, which would let you switch between them a little faster. And this could well be worth getting more. But as far as accessing the internet, I think that quickly becomes your bottleneck as far as accessing simultaneously on so many "threads".
If you add enough, you could set up a rather large RAM disk that would give you more options. But if you have 48M now, I think absent the need to edit large graphics files or do video editing, you probably are set for the moment.
You've got me thinking now about getting more memory, because I only have 32M, and while I seldom have more than 3 or 4 sessions going, I also run Metastock, Excel, and Word. I do get pauses and thrashing when I move about. For a small price, it seems worth it to get more. I have just sort of been thinking though that I will be getting a faster system with even more memory, but this may be a good way to stretch this one a bit further, while the prices erode on the 266Mhz's and beyond. |
