[wplug] How much performance increase with more memory?

Lance Tost ltost at pobox.com
Tue Apr 15 10:33:43 EDT 2003


Ah... didn't notice it was a laptop the first time I read the message... 
yeah, the prices of laptop upgrades suck.

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Scott F. Kiesling wrote:

> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 10:01:34 -0400
> From: Scott F. Kiesling <kiesling+ at pitt.edu>
> Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Subject: [wplug] How much performance increase with more memory?
> 
> 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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