Is 2GB expensive? Again some famous medical software companies have recommended we have at least 1GB RAM on Win-XP machines to try and reduce crashes - and that was 4 years ago. Lots of XP-Pro users have 2GB RAM (my sons machinerunning XP-Pro has 2GB RAM. 2GB RAM now is much much cheaper than 1GB RAM then. MS recommends minimum of 1GB RAM for home machines. Have seen it and it works with 1GB (Vista home premium). So 2GB today is only double that recommended by the "guru's" 4 years ago - HDD space has increased at a much greater rate due to the size of programs used today. Now 15 years ago my work machine had a 60MB HDD and 4MB RAM. All the IT experts then told me I'll never fill my HDD in my lifetime. I'm still alive and can't get any-one to take my old HDD for free.
Cedric -------------------------------------------------------------------- And I'm told that you can forget running Vista on any PC with less than 2GB of RAM, and even then your application won't have much space to play in, and thus 4GB of RAM is not overkill for Vista. And if you want the "Aero" translucent windows and other eye-candy, then you need an accelerated 3D graphics card with at lest 512MB of dedicated graphics memory (i.e. most laptops and many current desktops are out - you'll only see graphics which are very similar to those in Win XP). Oh, as Horst say, it had better be a graphics card for which Vista drivers are available. Oh, and forget installing 64-bit Vista on your 64-bit CPU (as almost all CPUs are these days), as there are almost no 64-bit Vista device drivers available for anything, let alone graphics cards, and no, the 32-bit drivers don't work on 64-bit Vista. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
