[wplug] How much performance increase with more memory?

[John Strange]

Hehe the dreaded how can I upgrade my laptop question.

I really really really would advise against anyone using a laptop as a
main system unless you really really have to have it.  The simple reason
being they are MUCH more expensive than a normal desktop computer.

But you could probably use at least a 128M upgrade, 256 for linux should
be MORE than enough, you'll probably notice the difference.  Since
laptop hard drives are slow the more memory the less swapping the
better.

On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 10:01, Scott F. Kiesling wrote:
> 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