RE: [Thinkpad] Memory Max.

> From: Michael Stack
> My experience is limited to W2K on a T20 w/256MB RAM and
> XPPro on a T30 w/512. Both work very well, but when the
> T30 MB went bad and only 256 was available, the reduction
> in performance was noticeable - in fact, that was how I
> learned of the problem. 256 may be enough for XP, but in
> my environment 512 is lots better.

Keep in mind that there's no one right answer for the amount of memory
needed for good performance. It all depends on what you're running on your
machine in addition to the OS itself.

My wife was running XP Pro on a TP600 with 96MB for a while, and it worked
fine for her needs: email, web browsing, and a bit of word processing, and
never a lot of stuff open at once.

OTOH, I noticed a huge difference when I went from 512MB to 1GB RAM, and I
wish I could put more memory in my A30p. But this is because I run dozens of
apps at once, including VMware virtual machines that eat up memory real
fast.

-Mike

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Received on Tue Jun 1 14:30:28 2004