Text 8214, 69 rader
Skriven 2005-05-31 12:40:32 av Ross Cassell (1:123/456)
   Kommentar till text 8210 av TOM WALKER (1:123/140)
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Hello TOM!

31 May 05 07:23, you wrote to me:

 RC>> I also like lotsa of RAM because it boosts performance.

 TW> NOT always. That depends o nthe Needs of the Software. The Extra RAM
 TW> only does any good at all when the Program wants MORe ram then you
 TW> have and the system starts using a part of the Hard Drive to swap data
 TW> in and out.A Mush slower process then Mother Board RAM. BUT those are
 TW> VERY Heavy duty programs like Serious large PIX manulipuation and
 TW> Crunching fairly Spread Sheets/ Data Bases to name a FRW. JUST how
 TW> much of thet do you Really do??

I have 38 icons in the systray, not games, just utils I use.

 TW> This aside I can see the point of buying Memory up frond as things
 TW> change and later what you need may not be avaialble or much higher
 TW> then hte cost of the Origional Upgrade. BUT stil lI am talking about a
 TW> very small grou pof users and I don't agree with the Contention that
 TW> ALL need vHUGE amounts of RAM at all.

Why do you pretend to speak for what other people may or may not need versus
what they want, why do you infer that you know with statistical certainty what
the usage and needs breakdowns are?

I know what people are asking for and the queries are their own, not formed by
my answers to their questions or answers they received from others. Statiscally
this has to be the case elsewhere but I do not formulate this into numbers like
you appear to be doing.

 RC> TW>> WHY then is MY opinion less valad then the Recomendations of
 RC> TW>> the Producer of the Software??

 RC>> Because with any OS that multi-tasks, more RAM is better. The less
 RC>> the syste has to thrash the disks hitting the swap file, the more
 RC>> responsive it become and faster it executes commands and with a
 RC>> 256m system executing only the ap needed to do email and word
 RC>> processing, you are still gonna thrash the swap file alot more than
 RC>> you would with 512m or better.

 TW>  NOW you are AGAIN talking about a smal lsegment of the Computer
 TW> USERS. Multi-Tasking is a cute term to throw out but in REALITY how
 TW> many efven do that never the less even know what it is??

The minute they have more than one window going...

Not to mention all the various windows services going on..

 TW> YOU are totaly missing my POINT. EVERY body dosen't need a Super
 TW> Gaming machine and it is a criminal waste of peoples recources to
 TW> Convince then that they do when they DON'T. Adn in my casew I am
 TW> talking aboutr SEnior Citizens most likely o nFIXED incones and I will
 TW> NEVER recoooend that they THROW MONEY AWAY just for "Bragging Rights"
 TW> Adn that asl oapplies to CPU SPEED .IT has been Grossly Over Hyped and
 TW> many are Oversold solely for the Gain of soemoene else.

I havent confined myself to senior citizens but I do know that they are all not
the same. (San Diego area or otherwise)


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