maggior;378081 Wrote: > and am quite happy. So to all of you in this thread that have been > telling me to just add more memory: you were right! > > I learned something regarding the memory usage reported by task > manager. Apparently Windows will start swapping even before it's used > up all of your memory. After I added the new memory, the physical > memory usage jumped right up above 1GB, whereas before, it hovered in > the mid 800MBs. > > Vista machines should NOT be sold with < 2GB. The additional memory > made a huge difference in the performance of the machine. It boots > faster. Processes load more quickly. Vista is usable now. :-). I > haven't booted the Ubuntu partition in weeks now. > > So the next time I have a pile of CDs to rip, I'll give dbPowerAmp > another spin.
Glad you took the plunge and saw the results. 1GB for XP is a little on the low side for how cheap getting to 2GB is. -- m1abrams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ m1abrams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=850 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51938 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
