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EHM-1703 Philip:
In relative terms, that's not too bad really! When I bought my first 286 PC back in nineteen hundred and frozen to death, I paid £200 for 4mb of RAM! These days you can pick up a good quality matched pair of 512 meg sticks for that... Although I will agree that it would seem that both the OS an programmers don't make economical use of RAM these days, but when you compare what my Intel 840, Windows XP and 2gb of ram can do compared to my old 286 (running at 16mhz :) )with Windows 3.0 and 4mb of RAM, it's not really surprising we will need so much for the next generation OS. Windows XP will run with 256mb but is best with 512mb. Vista will run 512mb but will be best with 1gb, I suppose we just have to call it progress!
EHM-0641 Rico:
Thnx for all the tips guys...
I think I'm gonna put it of for while like Phil said.. Allot can happen in six months in the pc world... I buy one now, and in 6 months theres already something better again ..
I think i'm gonna let FSX come out first, and then see what to buy.. get some info on trouble shooting and how it runs with various configurations..
About the RAM issue, I run Windows Vista on this PC, and have 1GB of RAM... no problems so far
EHM-0654 Murray:
--- Quote ---Originally posted by philnutt
...Vista will run 512mb but will be best with 1gb...
--- End quote ---
Truely hate to argue with you Phil, but Vista ticks over at 800MB! Was either The Register or The Inquirer that had a screeny of Task Manager on the current internal Vista beta (2) and it's using 800MB with absolutely nothing else running.
Found it - was The Inquirer - click for the morning glory
EHM-1539 Pierre:
--- Quote ---Message original : Murray Crane
--- Quote ---Originally posted by philnutt
...Vista will run 512mb but will be best with 1gb...
--- End quote ---
Truely hate to argue with you Phil, but Vista ticks over at 800MB!
--- End quote ---
Well, have to agree, XP *can* run on 256, but let's be realist, it needs actually 512 to work *properly* especially when it's actually used as a multi user OS (that's why many computers dedicated to single user use for memory consuming tasks -3D rendering, calculations, etc...- are still running on 2k).
No surprise if Vista needs between 512 and 1GO of RAM to run.
Add the RAM necessary for the latest games (some MMORPG, Battlefield 2, probably those Quake 4 and so on...) and you'll already be at 1.5GO.
Yeah, 2GO will be standard very soon.
EHM-0654 Murray:
Maabaa - edited my reply to Phil.
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