So if I got a computer with 2gb and a harddrive of 250gb is that good>? Kathy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Gallik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 12:59 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] memory and hard drive space
> Both types of "memory" are critical, but the fact is that hard drives are > getting so reasonably priced and with such high capacity that they might > be > considered a secondary concern. An 80 GB hard drive is hardly a big deal > any more. > > On the other hand RAM is quite another matter. For one thing, Microsoft > publishes "low end" specs for minimum configuration for running the > various > Operating Systems. Microsoft tells you that Vista can run on 512 MB RAM > and > that may be true, but it isn't going to be any sort of whiz. You'd be > better off with 2 GB of RAM if you can afford that because the memory > chips > are still quite costly. > > Personally, I have Windows 2000 and the published minimum RAM to support > this OS was 256 MB, but I have 512 MB RAM and I'm very glad that I doubled > the low-end requirement. Even at that the PC seems to bog down at times > so > 1 GB RAM wouldn't be overkill on my system neither. > > HTH > > > ---*---*---*---*---*--- > Bill Gallik > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - "The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is > that > we must put up with a good deal of rubbish." > - Robert Jackson > > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php > If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.21.7/1330 - Release Date: 3/15/2008 > 2:36 PM > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
