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4 GB May Be Vista's RAM Sweet Spot

Posted by kdawson on from the honkin' dept.

jcatcw writes "David Short, an IBM consultant who works in the Global Services Division and has been beta testing Vista for two years, says users should consider 4GB of RAM if they really want optimum Vista performance. With Vista's minimum requirement of 512MB of RAM, Vista will deliver performance that's 'sub-XP,' he says. (Dell and others recommend 2GB.) One reason: SuperFetch, which fetches applications and data, and feeds them into RAM to make them accessible more quickly. More RAM means more caching."

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  1. Re:Seriously by QuantumG · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    play games Uhhh.. you been to the PC Games sections at a major department store recently?

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  2. Re:What? by supasam · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Didn't you even to read the summary? How are "applications and data" the "OS alone"?


    I guess you don't understand how os's work or something? Are you thinking that somehow the applications cache themselves to memory? Do you think that the apps magically float there and there's no actual os doing the work or something? You _do_ know what an operating system is, don't you? "applications and data" cached in memory are not programs, they are data. All of it, something that can't be used without the os's direct manipulation. The os stores the data in memory, and when needed, loads the memory into program space to be executed. The trick here, is that ms stores oft used data in the RAM space of your computer, rather than the hard disk, so that it runs faster.

    So, in summary, cached data is not "applications and data," it's just data, something that only the os can use, and therefore, can be considered memory used by the os. Any questions? Do you feel like breaking this up into smaller parts again? Have fun.

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  3. Re:What? by heinousjay · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I suppose there's two possibilities here:

    1) You're just doing that obnoxious nerd thing of getting the last word in even though you're long past making a meaningful point

    2) You would seriously rather have the RAM sit idle, doing nothing, for reasons I can't even fathom.

    Care to enlighten me?

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