For Ken Blake, MVP

[Scrivener]

Hi, Ken:

I've enjoyed reading your posts. I posted this message to the Thread below,
but wanted to make sure you saw it. So, I copied and pasted it here.

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Hi, Ken:

I have a laptop with three gigs of SDRAM housed in two slots: Slot 1, 2
gigs; Slot 2, 1 gig. I've ordered a two-gig strip to put in the Slot 2,
which now has the 1gig installed. If I'm understanding you correctly,
you're indicating that it won't "help" the system and applications much
beyond my 3 gigs? If that's the case, I wasted my money purchasing the 2
gig for the second slot? (Live & Learn) If so, no big deal, except it
proves once again my ignorance on the subject, and that I should have done
more research.

As an aside, when I check this machine's performance - I'm running Vista
Ultimate - it shows approximately 1.1 gig used, 1.9 gig not used. I was
hoping to make that 2.1 unused.

Thanks, again, for any thoughts on this.

Ernie

 

[Ken Blake]

Hi, Ken:

I've enjoyed reading your posts.

Thank you. Glad to hear it.

I posted this message to the Thread below, but wanted to make sure you saw
it. So, I copied and pasted it here.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hi, Ken:

I have a laptop with three gigs of SDRAM housed in two slots: Slot 1, 2
gigs; Slot 2, 1 gig. I've ordered a two-gig strip to put in the Slot 2,
which now has the 1gig installed. If I'm understanding you correctly,
you're indicating that it won't "help" the system and applications much
beyond my 3 gigs?

Is this 32-bit Vista, not 64-bit?

If so, it won't help at all.

With 64-bit Vista, it *might* help, but only if you run memory-hungry
applications.

If that's the case, I wasted my money purchasing the 2

I'm afraid so.

gig for the second slot? (Live & Learn) If so, no big deal, except it
proves once again my ignorance on the subject, and that I should have done
more research.

As an aside, when I check this machine's performance - I'm running Vista
Ultimate - it shows approximately 1.1 gig used, 1.9 gig not used. I was
hoping to make that 2.1 unused.

Thanks, again, for any thoughts on this.

Ernie

 

[Scrivener]

Hi, Ken:

I received the two-gig. I removed the one gig; replaced it with the two
gig, giving me a total of four; restarted the 32-bit Vista Ultimate; and
Vista's recognizing 3.5 gigs. So, I gained 500 megs of SDRAM. My money
could have been spent more wisely. )

Take care, and will see you in the newsgroups.

Ernie

Hi, Ken:

I've enjoyed reading your posts.

Thank you. Glad to hear it.

I posted this message to the Thread below, but wanted to make sure you
saw it. So, I copied and pasted it here.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hi, Ken:

I have a laptop with three gigs of SDRAM housed in two slots: Slot 1, 2
gigs; Slot 2, 1 gig. I've ordered a two-gig strip to put in the Slot 2,
which now has the 1gig installed. If I'm understanding you correctly,
you're indicating that it won't "help" the system and applications much
beyond my 3 gigs?

Is this 32-bit Vista, not 64-bit?

If so, it won't help at all.

With 64-bit Vista, it *might* help, but only if you run memory-hungry
applications.

If that's the case, I wasted my money purchasing the 2

I'm afraid so.

 

[Ken Blake]

Hi, Ken:

I received the two-gig. I removed the one gig; replaced it with the two
gig, giving me a total of four; restarted the 32-bit Vista Ultimate; and
Vista's recognizing 3.5 gigs. So, I gained 500 megs of SDRAM. My money
could have been spent more wisely. )

3.5GB is more than most people get 32-bit Windows to see out of 4GB. Most
get around 3.1 - 3.2.

So you did better than most. Over and above how much Windows sees, thyough,
is the question of whether your apps can effectiveloy use that much

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Desktop Experience
Please reply to the newsgroup.

Take care, and will see you in the newsgroups.

Ernie

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Yes, that's true.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Is it true that Vista SP1 for 32 bit will allow reporting 4G
(if installed) even though 32 bit addressing precludes it's
full usage?

Unfortunately, yes, it's true. Microsoft obviously thought this was a
good move, but I don't. True, it will get rid of a lot of the "I have
4GB of RAM, but Windows only see 3.1GB--what happened?" questions. But
it gets rid of the questions at the expense of misleading Windows
users.

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

Unfortunately, yes, it's true. Microsoft obviously thought this was a
good move, but I don't. True, it will get rid of a lot of the "I have
4GB of RAM, but Windows only see 3.1GB--what happened?" questions. But
it gets rid of the questions at the expense of misleading Windows
users.

It doesn't mislead if one understands the difference between 'support' 4gb
and 'can use' 4gb..

--
Mike Hall - MVP
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[Ken Blake, MVP]

It doesn't mislead if one understands the difference between 'support' 4gb
and 'can use' 4gb..

My point is that the average person who will read what Windows will
now report will be misled. And most people are "average persons," the
great majority will be misled by this.