[wplug] How much performance increase with more memory?

[Scott F. Kiesling]

I am running Gentoo on a Dell Inspiron 5000, Pentium 3, 128M RAM. I use
Blackbox for X and the applications I use most frequently are Evolution,
OpenOffice, Phoenix, XMMS, and Praat (a speech analysis program). If I
upgrade my memory to 256 or 512, does the WPLUG public think I will see
signficant gains in speed? That is, should I spend the $200, or wait for
a while and get a new machine? 

Scott
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Scott F. Kiesling

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