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To: Sultan who wrote (32953)	3/9/2003 4:23:35 PM
From: Jurgis Bekepuris	Respond to of 110655

Like someone said: 1Gb RAM is useful in two situations: - Games - Long times between reboots and lots of apps. I have 1Gb RDRAM at work. With no reboots in a month (Win 2K) + MS Outlook + 5 Excel worksheets + 5 Word documents + 6 IE windows + couple Powerpoint windows + Lotus Notes + MS Visio + Adobe Acrobat + some other stuff open at the same time, the desktop is running above 500M used memory. Not even talking about MS Visual Studio. :-) When I had 256Mb only, I had to reboot due to memory leaks and subsequent crashes/disk swapping at least once in two weeks. So I personally will buy 1Gb for my next home computer. But it really depends on your use pattern. Even if you use a lot of apps, but reboot/shut down once a day or once couple of days, 512Mb should be enough. Jurgis - My RAM is larger than my HDD