I have Windows Vista Home Premium, with an Intel Pentium dual processor T2130 @1.83GHz 533 Mhz FSB. I do not do anything high end on this laptop an have a 160GB hard drive on this lap top on a Toshiba P205-S6307. I have the capacity to take it to 4 GB, but i don't feel it would be worth the money to go that far out for what I am using this unit for at all.
2007-08-14 14:54:59 · 7 answers · asked by polecat094 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Rule of thumb for all RAM. Get as much as you possibly can afford. At least 2GB for Vista in my opinion.
2007-08-14 15:01:24 · answer #1 · answered by JimGeek 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vista is a resource intensive system but if you don't use your computer for high end gaming or graphics software, 1GB should suffice. However if you start experiencing problems and systemn crashes, you should look into adding another GB.
You can see if your computer can handle more RAM by going to Crucial.com and running a scan.
http://www.crucial.com/index.asp
It's important to note that everything takes RAM. Not only security products (such as active anti-spyware, anti-virus and firewall) eat up memory but your operating system, active browser windows, running applications (such as Word, Gaming, Messenger, Photoshop, etc) and malware all compete for system resources.
2007-08-14 22:01:56 · answer #2 · answered by MLM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
look i have the same thing but just to tell u, should go on crucial.com exact spell then get the crucial scan and it will tell u how much stick drives u have and how much money is for the stick u should get it from there it is the best and it ships in 1 or 2 days this is the best company to and it tells u step by step and usally on crucial the labtop memory stick is really cheap honestly try the website it is the best. u shuld get the memory before prices get high in the next 6 to 10 months.
2007-08-14 22:04:18 · answer #3 · answered by ROCKBAND678 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your not running Vista s' Aero Glass feature then you have ample ram to run other programs and games. If you prefer to use the aero glass feature then your ram is allready maxed out and upgrading to 2gigs will be necessary to avoid stalls and crashes. Even Microsoft will advise 2 gigs of ram .Vista needs 512mb and aero needs 512mb and wants more. If you want to keep your rig as is just uninstall the aero glass feature
2007-08-14 22:11:43 · answer #4 · answered by John O 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1GB will cut it for vista home premium, but you should have at least 2GB to run it well. If you're not doing anything terribly intensive, you don't need a whole buttload of RAM. 768MB didn't cut it when I was using Vista RC1, 1GB isn't a whole lot more.
2007-08-14 22:03:48 · answer #5 · answered by crazytales562 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on ram you are using if you are running ddr ram a gig will go if you are using sp 133 load it up as much as you can
2 gigs of any ram should do you
2007-08-14 22:06:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
just get onother 1gb
2007-08-14 22:04:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋