tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023590240909870844.post1039587474941414433..comments2008-02-01T10:57:28.985+08:00jun auzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14949001210993384627noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023590240909870844.post-2726661255102089782008-02-01T10:57:00.000+08:002008-02-01T10:57:00.000+08:00I am extremely sorry, but I am using 512MB on both of my "household" machines and when it starts thrashing the virtual memory and trying to load off of the hard drive it is very noticeable.<BR/><BR/>That said, I just put nLite'd Windows2000 (took out IE, added Firefox and Foxit) on my Grandfathers PC, and it was quite snappy on 512mb PC133 (minus 32mb for shared graphics).<BR/><BR/>I wouldn't recommend less than 512 to anyone. Mainly because of the stuff everyon wants to run, add some basic hardware (webcam, printer, ipod, ATT/SBC Yahoo "suite"), and all of the little updaters and background tasks eat up the memory and the system drags to a crawl, if not stops entirely.<BR/><BR/>iTunes and HP printers are especially bad, running up to 3 tasks apiece and sometimes 2 or 3 notification icons.<BR/><BR/>ATT Yahoo Suite? I cringe whenever I have to service a PC loaded with that horrible stuff, it hijacks the network connection and runs 3-5 processes just to pop up a "help box" to tell you that "if the problem persists (it is our software at fault, ha ha.)", etc.<BR/><BR/>So, yes, you can run just fine on 256MB of ram, if you don't need any peripherals or software running at the same time.<BR/><BR/>If we could convince all the hardware manufacturers that we don't need 3 processes, a taskbar notification, a pop up helper, a web updater and a hardware detection widget running just to print, then I would back down, but that is not the direction that we are headed.Milesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023590240909870844.post-15000487220883645442008-01-03T11:08:00.000+08:002008-01-03T11:08:00.000+08:00256MB will do just fine? You are kidding, right?Leonard Bartholomewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10162352896984001371noreply@blogger.com