Hi Kathy. I second this post from Bill. Ram is more important. Most people never fill their harddrives to capacity, and maxing out the ram almost always makes a significant difference in the performance of the machine. Plus, all the literature I've read on Vista seems to at least touch on the importance of ram. Hope this helps.
Tony Hernandez: Speaksclan Patriarch http://www.tonyspeaks.com http://www.speaksclan.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Gallik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 12:59 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] memory and hard drive space > Both types of "memory" are critical, but the fact is that hard drives are > getting so reasonably priced and with such high capacity that they might > be > considered a secondary concern. An 80 GB hard drive is hardly a big deal > any more. > > On the other hand RAM is quite another matter. For one thing, Microsoft > publishes "low end" specs for minimum configuration for running the > various > Operating Systems. Microsoft tells you that Vista can run on 512 MB RAM > and > that may be true, but it isn't going to be any sort of whiz. You'd be > better off with 2 GB of RAM if you can afford that because the memory > chips > are still quite costly. > > Personally, I have Windows 2000 and the published minimum RAM to support > this OS was 256 MB, but I have 512 MB RAM and I'm very glad that I doubled > the low-end requirement. Even at that the PC seems to bog down at times > so > 1 GB RAM wouldn't be overkill on my system neither. > > HTH > > > ---*---*---*---*---*--- > Bill Gallik > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - "The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is > that > we must put up with a good deal of rubbish." > - Robert Jackson > > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ > To post to this group, send email to > blind-computing@jaws-users.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php > If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.21.7/1331 - Release Date: 3/16/2008 > 10:34 AM > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
