Indeed. As a long-time user of HP systems, I thoroughly recommend uninstalling all the HP system bits on any HP system. They're crap and bloated. As a rule, uninstall anything with HP in the name. The hardware is quite nice but their software sucks.
For general use, going to 2GB is a nice boost. For hard use that will benefit you more. -Adam Sending this from an HP Laptop running Fedora Core 6, rather than my usual HP Desktop running an optimised Vista Home Premium install. On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 3:34 PM, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could see anything from a 10 to 50% improvement in throughput > depending on how memory intensive the process. Processing large > Photoshop files might even show a larger improvement. You might also > look into finding out just how many of those 60 odd processes are > important, HP and your ISP (if you're using the software they supplied), > have probably saddled you with between 10-20 processes you don't need or > want for that matter. That said I'm running Win2K and have only 48 > processes running with my email client web client and calendar > application being the only user programs running. The other thing you > might want to look into would be increasing video memory, if your video > card allows. > > > Rick Womer wrote: > > We have a Mac household, but my work computer is an HP > > with a 2 gHz processor and 1 gig of RAM running XP. > > There is a lot running on it (60-odd processes when I > > checked using alt-ctrl-del just now). > > > > The question is: How much of a speed improvement > > should I expect if I double the RAM? If the limiting > > factor is the processor, I don't want to invest in > > more RAM. > > > > Rick > > > > http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > Be a better friend, newshound, and > > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > > > > > > > -- > Vote for Cthulhu. Why settle for a lesser evil... > -- Dr. Jerry Pournelle > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
