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To: Gary Burton who wrote (40528)3/21/1999 6:19:00 PM
From: Alski  Read Replies (1) of 95453
 
Gary,
If you've got enough memory or not depends on what you're trying to do. Memory has gotten so cheap it's worth a try but I doubt your "slow" performance is a memory problem, unless you're trying to do an awful lot of different things at once.
For example, my desktop is a 120MHz Pentium with 32Meg. I've also got cable modem. I've got two network cards in this beast and running a proxy server so I can simultaneously surf with my laptop thru my desktop on the same account. When I get about four IE windows open with Quicken running in the background or more than two big java apps it starts to slow down a bit. My laptop has 64Meg and it's noticeably faster, but that's more because it's a 233Mhz PII than the memory.
IE5 is more processor efficient. Even with more memory you'll still see an improvement over IE4. Of course, as I said before, if your trying to access a bogged down server nothing you do will help.
Alski
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