On Tuesday, 3 September 2013 at 16:15:51 UTC, Chris wrote:
If you had the choice between:
- 4 GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 1 X 4 GB
- 8 GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 2 X 4GB ( + $49.00 )
Is it worth the extra money or is the increase in performance
not worth mentioning? Any experience with that.
The processor
4th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-4700MQ Processor ( 2.4 GHz 6MB
L3 Cache - 4 Cores plus Hyperthreading )
Thanks.
That very much depends on your usage scenario. My rather old
(T500, 2*2,8 GHz, 4GB, normal hard disk) notebook still feels
perfectly fine even for the occasional movie.
For Windoze I don't know but for linux and FreeBSD a 4GB dual
core system is absolutely OK and that includes software
development even with IDE unless you use Eclipse. Unless you want
to compile linux or gcc or the like frequently a Core7 is
actually overkill/luxury.
Generally speaking though, you might want to always have 2 (equal
size) RAMs rather than 1.
As for SSDs, I have one on my main system and it's nice but
frankly, with linux buffering and enough RAM the difference
usually isn't that noticeable.
A+ -R
