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To: Esteban who wrote (18384)	4/4/2001 2:05:55 PM
From: Nemer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110631

Esteban ... this is my experience ONLY ... I've used all the way up to 1024 meg of RAM ... it appears to me to always go faster and do better the more you add ... but for practical purposes and prudent expenditure *(thass me ...ggg) 133mz and 100mz ==> trading the market I need 256 MIN and now that it is cheap ... 512 is what I'd recco.. the video stuff my son uses .. 512 MIN regular home office stuff and normal (not daytrading) usage 128 MIN I would take, as has just been said here ... a P400 CPU running a front side bus of 100 with 512 meg of RAM before I'd use a P900 with 32RAM ... cause I've tried both in the past two weeks ... I don't think any money is wasted buying more RAM ... now, much to the delight of all on the thread who I've bored this morning ... I have to go ... got three construction thingies to take care of ... cause I'm going to the season opening of LoneStarPark in Dallas tomorrow .... the "money tree" I call it ..... LOL Nem

To: Esteban who wrote (18384)	4/4/2001 2:11:41 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110631

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 :) mark