Bob said:
Al, the average Joe using his computer for email probably wouldn't notice
any difference between 512mb and a gig. However with more ram available
there would be less swap file usage, so the overall computer performance
would increase on that point alone. It has been said many times the first
place to look at for upgrades is ram and cpu. Most of the other stuff is a
crap shoot on bang for buck value.
Do you recall the guy saying "640k ought to be enough for anybody" ? or
somesuch.... Bill Gates 1981 as I recall.
Hehe. Off topic but for some just as amusing predictions:
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --Thomas
Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." --Popular
Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949.
"But what ... is it good for?" --Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems
Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." --Ken
Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay
for a message sent to nobody in particular?" --David Sarnoff's associates
in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" --H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." --Lord Kelvin,
president, Royal Society, 1895.
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." --Marechal
Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction
and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react.
He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
--1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket
work.
And the winner is:
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." --Charles H. Duell,
Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
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