RAM needed on Vista

[bunnyandfoxy]

You really need 1mb of ram for vista
You can use the ReadyBoost facility in Visat to improve the speed. All it will cost you is about £30 for a Ready Boost compatible USB 2.0 stick - I find the LG Stick excellent and it will make a big difference and you don't have to take the box apart to put new memory in.

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[Richard Urban]

One gig of RAM will be sufficient for a large majority of people who are not
trying to push for performance.

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[Larry]

No, I'm talking about the substantial additional costs for sufficient Memory
to run a new computer that has Vista. A friend just bought a new laptop
with Vista with 512 MB which the salesmen said would be plenty of RAM. But
it's not. Now I learn that at least one GB of RAM is needed. Based on my
previous purchases of memory sticks, buying 500 MB of RAM is going to cost
quite a lot.

 

[Larry]

I just looked up this ReadyBoost at Microsoft. Does this mean you have to
have a flash drive or memory stick permanently attached to one of your
computer's USB ports?

You really need 1mb of ram for vista
You can use the ReadyBoost facility in Visat to improve the speed. All it

will cost you is about £30 for a Ready Boost compatible USB 2.0 stick - I
find the LG Stick excellent and it will make a big difference and you don't
have to take the box apart to put new memory in.

 

[Richard Urban]

About 40-60 dollars at today's prices. I bought 2 gig of "premium" RAM, the
type most people do NOT buy, for $249.00.

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[Mark Rae]

No, I'm talking about the substantial additional costs for sufficient
Memory
to run a new computer that has Vista. A friend just bought a new laptop
with Vista with 512 MB which the salesmen said would be plenty of RAM.
But
it's not. Now I learn that at least one GB of RAM is needed. Based on my
previous purchases of memory sticks, buying 500 MB of RAM is going to cost
quite a lot.

No idea where you're from but, in the UK, 512Mb RAM for my Toshiba laptop
would cost around £50:
http://www.laptopshop.co.uk/laptop-memory.htm?model=Satellite+L20-100&make=Toshiba

 

[Stephan Rose]

Not at all - perfectly serious...

Vista is the most powerful OS released by Microsoft to date and, as such,
requires the most hardware resources...

That's complete bullshit.

Requiring more hardware resources does NOT make it more powerful! This
applies to any type of software not just Vista.

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[Jeffrey S. Sparks]

Not permanently, but anytime you want it to use readyboost then it has to be
plugged in..

Jeff

 

[Jim]

One gig of RAM will be sufficient for a large majority of people who are
not trying to push for performance.

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So, Vista isn't greatly different from XP then?
Jim

 

[Larry]

$60 for 512 MB of RAM? when you consider that it used to be something like
$60 for 128 MB, that's fantastic. I did not know prices had dropped so
much.

 

[Larry]

Do all flash drives have their own RAM?

And if I plug any flash drive into a Vista machine will the flash drive's
memory be accessed by the machine?

Thanks.

 

[Mark Rae]

And if I plug any flash drive into a Vista machine will the flash drive's
memory be accessed by the machine?

http://blogs.msdn.com/tomarcher/archive/2006/06/02/615199.aspx

 

[MattersNot]

Mark Rae wrote:




That's complete bullshit.

Requiring more hardware resources does NOT make it more powerful! This
applies to any type of software not just Vista.

You seem to have a reading comprehension problem. That is
not what was said in the above statement. While using XP Pro
it seldom made anywhere near full use of the memory
available on my computer whereas Vista does make use of the
total amount of memory available. This does not make Vista a
'resource hog'. It makes it a more efficient operating
system using all resources available to it and adjusting its
use according to what running programs leave available.

 

[Guest]

Do all flash drives have their own RAM?

And if I plug any flash drive into a Vista machine will the flash drive's
memory be accessed by the machine?

It will use the flash drive as a cache for your HD's it will not use it like
normal memory.

 

[Stephan Rose]

You seem to have a reading comprehension problem. That is
not what was said in the above statement. While using XP Pro
it seldom made anywhere near full use of the memory
available on my computer whereas Vista does make use of the
total amount of memory available. This does not make Vista a
'resource hog'. It makes it a more efficient operating
system using all resources available to it and adjusting its
use according to what running programs leave available.

My reading comprehension, in 3 languages by the way, is perfectly fine.
Thank you very much for your concern though.

Using more resources does not make something more efficient. Using *less*
resources to do the same task is more efficient.

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[Ken Blake, MVP]

No, I'm talking about the substantial additional costs for sufficient
Memory to run a new computer that has Vista. A friend just bought a
new laptop with Vista with 512 MB which the salesmen said would be
plenty of RAM.

Salesmen? You believe salesmen?

But it's not. Now I learn that at least one GB of
RAM is needed. Based on my previous purchases of memory sticks,
buying 500 MB of RAM is going to cost quite a lot.

About $60-80 (US) these days. Do you consider that "quite a lot"?

 

[John Barnes]

Personally, for most after you hit 1 gig you would probably be better off
upgrading your processor speed. Mine choked on a 3500+ but is running great
on a 5200+

 

[Guest]

Larry,
yes Vista is hard on memory, but I use it and I like it, I also have a 2 gig
flash drive that I use for ready boost a feature of Vista that uses the flash
memory to speed up things, they are cheap $30 or so and works good, but 512
meg in your friends laptop I agree is really not enough for Vista, I used at
least 1 gig on XP.
I own a Dell E1705 laptop Dual core 1.86 gig, 256 meg GeForce 7900gs go
video, 17" screen, 100 gig 7200rpm hard drive, dvdrw, and 2 gig of memory it
came with XP media center, but I bought Vista Ultimate full edition, and even
with my hardware it is slower than XP, I even use ready boost, after MS has
the first service pack out it should be better,

I work as a computer tech and can tell you Vista is good, if your friend
wants, she should buy more memory, it should be DDR2 she could get another
512 stick for $50 or less and that would be fine for her.

email me and I can talk to you and get you prices on the memory, I have
extra laptop memory really cheap ( I upgraded both my wife's and my laptops
with 2 gig each and have 4-5 512 meg sticks I could sell you for $25 each
just to help you out) (e-mail address removed)

Chris