I currently have an HP Pavilion laptop (years old now, still working albeit slowly). It has a "Total Physical Memory" of 256mb and a "Total Virtual Memory" of 2gb.
What does each mean? Am considering replacing this laptop with a Macbook and have seen the most basic has an 80gb Hard-drive but I don't know which on the laptop to compare this with.
Can any body please help me clear up my confusion? Is 80gb (Macbook) low, average or high in terms of capacity? I have loads and loads of photos and music to store and do lots of web design (basic) so need to be sure of the memory capacity.
Many thanks! :)
2007-12-15 00:45:06 · 12 answers · asked by animalita40 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Physical memory is the actual RAM that is installed inyour PC it is quite fast in terms of accessing data
Virtual memory is not physical in terms that you cannot touch it or remomve it. Vitutal memory is a section of unused harddrive space that is used inplace of the faster physical memory that your PC lacks.
Since the hard drive is slower interms of accessing data compared to physical memory, your PC will see an increased in performance by adding or replacing existing physical memory with more or larger amounts ( 512MB or more)
The virtual memory allows your computer to still function , although at a slower speed when running applications that have used up all of the physical memory. Remember , before you even start a program the PC already is running the OS and other services which each allocate a chunk of physical memory for themselves. You can see exactly how much is used by pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL and viewing the process tab and viewing the Performance tab.
You can easily determine what memory your need to add to your PC by visiting a site like Crucial.com which can analyze your pc for the type of memory used.
2007-12-15 00:57:19 · answer #1 · answered by MarkG 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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I currently have an HP Pavilion laptop (years old now, still working albeit slowly). It has a "Total Physical Memory" of 256mb and a "Total Virtual Memory" of 2gb.
What does each mean? Am considering replacing this laptop with a Macbook and have seen the most basic has an...
2015-08-13 12:25:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Computers have some physical memory calld RAM and at the same time can use part of hard disk as if it was RAM (virtual memory). You can consider virtual memory as very very slow RAM.
No these days 80 GB is not enough.
I have no knowledge about macs but I would recommand a Intel Core 2 Duo, with 2GB RAM, 250GB Hard disk,...
2007-12-15 00:54:06 · answer #4 · answered by Eagle 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Physical memory is the actual amount of sticks of random access memory you have in the PC and virtual memory is a part of the hard drive set aside to be used like it is random access memory. You can install more physical memory if you want.
You can get bigger hard drives than the 80GB in that Macbook, have a look around and see what you can get.
2007-12-15 00:50:42 · answer #5 · answered by Gavin T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2014-09-02 07:46:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
total physical memory is the amount of ram installed to your pc.
total virtual memory is how much space on a hard drive you use to simulate additional ram (but does not work as fast as ram)
2007-12-15 00:52:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
fisical memory is ram the thing that is in your computer, virtual memory is what windows assigns basicaly virtual memory is a paging file that windows assingns to the harddrive you can turn it off or alter the amount in control pannel basicaly windows reserves part of your harddrive as virtual memory 2GB is a lot
2007-12-15 05:35:06 · answer #8 · answered by nay25us 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Right click task bar, choose Task Manager. Click on Performance tab to see those information. I'm on my XP right now and don't want to change to Vista laptop, but I think it still the same on that matter.
2016-04-02 02:59:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
80gb will probably be a lot bigger than your current hard drive.
Most PCs come with 160gb nowadays and 320gb is fairly common. You can also get terabyte (1000gb) hard drives as well .
2007-12-15 00:57:24 · answer #10 · answered by ray_diator 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋