Well only my home server and work server has more than 512MB RAM so I guess I'll be staying with my 2 x 6 PC XP pro network for now. I see no need to go and spend thousands on faster and bigger machines T
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cedric Meyerowitz > Sent: Monday, 12 February 2007 3:39 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'General Practice Computing Group Talk' > Subject: RE: [GPCG_TALK] Open letter to Medtech > > 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 > > __________ NOD32 2053 (20070211) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > > _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
