JimH wrote:



My son's laptop has 2GB, DDR2, 667MHz 2 Dimm memory and the processor is
AMD
Turion 64 X2 TL-60 (2.0GHz/1MB).

I posed the question of the concerns posted here in a computer forum.
Here
is one of the responses I received from what I would judge to be one of
the
experts in the forum on computers

I had a new desktop built in February loaded with Vista. It's wonderful
and
I am delighted with it.
-----------------------------------
Every time MS brings out new software the prophets of doom and gloom come
out of their comfort zone and start whining. The people who condemn Vista
today are the same people who tomorrow will enjoy Vista and will have
forgotten their reluctance to change. It's no different to the same
arguments made when changing from Windows 95 to 98 and then to XP all over
again.

The main protagonists seem to be conservative and frugal home and small
business users who cannot easily afford the hardware required and large
commercial organizations where such a major change would eat into their
mega
profits.

Take no notice and enjoy it.


JimH,

I have to throw in the towel, when you provide irrefutable proof like
this what can I say. It is obvious Vista is a supreme OS, that will not
slow down your machine and will not cause any problems. That probably
is why MS is in no hurry to release their SP1 update.

Are you going to follow Harry's advice and add an additional 2 GB of RAM?

Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:

Are you going to follow Harry's advice and add an additional 2 GB of RAM?

It's not necessary for most apps, and not really necessary for some I
run, but in some circumstances, the ability to address about another gig
and a quarter of RAM speeds up some processes.

HK wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:

Are you going to follow Harry's advice and add an additional 2 GB of RAM?

It's not necessary for most apps, and not really necessary for some I
run, but in some circumstances, the ability to address about another gig
and a quarter of RAM speeds up some processes.



Address? Address? You can address all of the memory space all of the
time. What makes a processor run faster is to have a great pre-fetch or
a lot of real and fast memory available.

BAR wrote:
HK wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:

Are you going to follow Harry's advice and add an additional 2 GB of
RAM?

It's not necessary for most apps, and not really necessary for some I
run, but in some circumstances, the ability to address about another
gig and a quarter of RAM speeds up some processes.



Address? Address? You can address all of the memory space all of the
time. What makes a processor run faster is to have a great pre-fetch or
a lot of real and fast memory available.


We're not talking about the same thing here, Bertie.
Have a nice night.

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:42:16 -0400, BAR wrote:

Address? Address? You can address all of the memory space all of the
time. What makes a processor run faster is to have a great pre-fetch or
a lot of real and fast memory available.

That's true at the hardware level.

At the software level the best use is for preloading key database
components into a large buffer store or virtual disk. Other than
Harry I doubt that many of us are hosting large databases.

Wayne.B wrote:
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:42:16 -0400, BAR wrote:

Address? Address? You can address all of the memory space all of the
time. What makes a processor run faster is to have a great pre-fetch or
a lot of real and fast memory available.

That's true at the hardware level.

At the software level the best use is for preloading key database
components into a large buffer store or virtual disk. Other than
Harry I doubt that many of us are hosting large databases.

Harry has a database with information about all of us.