[wplug] How much performance increase with more memory?

[Bill]

Not true.....I found 512 PC100 upgrades for as low as $50 online (i'm
not saying that chip would work in his laptop necessarily).  I got a 128
PC100 for my Toshiba last August for $15 + s/h.

I think thats pretty reasonable. :)

-b

On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 10:33, Lance Tost wrote:
> 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
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Lance Tost <ltost at pobox.com>
> 
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