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["Michael Kimsal" <mgkimsal AT gmail.com>]

I do web development, althought not much in the way of graphic design (tho I did do one graphic-intensive site recently).  My laptop has 512 meg, but 128 are used for video by default, giving me 384.  I thought I'd need to put more in, but even with 'only' 384, I don't have too much problem.  I'm planning to take the RAM from the older laptop and add it in, but haven't got around to it yet.  If your budget is tight, 512 should be fine for most work.  If you've got the extra $30-$40 (whatever the diff is) 768 would be nice to run at.

Most of the benefit comes from being able to run more simultaneous apps.  If you're primarily a single tasker, more RAM probably won't help too much.  I used to have openoffice, gimp, mp3 player, 2-3 web browsers, and editors open at the same time, which needed a lot of RAM.  I realized I wasn't getting as much done as when I single-tasked, so I'm now able to get by with 384 much better than I thought I would.

On 6/27/06, Colleen McCarthy <cmccarthy1 AT nc.rr.com> wrote:

Hi Folks,

Thanks to everyone for the help with copying a distribution list!  Once I started with a non-nested distribution list, copying it was simple.

I have two more questions…  Question one:

I have 256 K of memory in my laptop.  I want to increase it, but really don't know how much more I need.  I have one open slot, and I can put in another 256 K,  512 K, or 1G.

Right now I'm not doing a lot with graphics.  I may use Flash in the future, but probably not extensively.  I can't think of many applications that I run that use a lot of memory.

Can those of you who are graphic artists/Web designers/Web developers tell me how much memory you have (or feel you need)?  Can some of you who use memory-intensive applications tell me what those apps are and how much memory you have (or feel you need)?  If any of you are running with 512 and think that that's fine, can you please let me know that, also?

Question two:

Is there a way to tell Windows that you want to look for a folder (not a file, a folder)?  This is a Windows folder…

Thanks!

Colleen

(h) 919.460.0641
(c) 919.349.4015

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