Buy or use a good usb drive ~ 1 or 2 gb size (having good speed)and use it as a ready 
boost in Vista (Much cheaper than adding a ram)...







On Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 5:17 pm, JSanders wrote:

>That's a tough question.  I have 2 GB or RAM on my laptop, and run GIS applications, 

>as well as Photoshop and Illustrator, and rarely use more than around 55% of my 
available 

>RAM (at least according to the MultiMeter gadget on my sidebar).  I can have both 

>Photoshop and my GIS application open simultaneously and don't really see any performance 

>hit unless I'm doing a large operation in GIS, and that's running the Aero interface. 

> My opinion would be that yes, you probably are going to be better off in the long 

>run adding that extra half-gig, but you may not notice a big difference, at least 

>not at first.  Keep in mind that some of that RAM could be going to your video card, 

>depending on video RAM you have.  So to answer your question...maybe or maybe not, 

>lol.  I'm sure some others will have some better info for you.

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