>On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> wrote: > >I suspect (and I may be completely mistaken) that the major improvement >you saw may have been from the first 256 MB increase, from 256 to 512, >and I am therefore not at all sure that you'd gain all that much from >going up to 2 GB.
Celejar has a point here. I just upgraded a Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop running Lenny 5.0.3 from 512 to 1.25 GB RAM and noticed hardly any difference after about a week of usage. Granted, I'm just doing typical non-intensive web browsing, spreadsheets, etc. However, I feel better about it so that's worth something right? :) FWIW, in the past the biggest improvement I've seen is upgrading the laptop hdd (regardless of laptop make or model) from a 5,400 rpm disk to 7,200. Most desktop hdd's these days are 7,200 rpm so my point is useless for desktop discussions. Mark
