Wow, that was really interesting and informative. Actually, other than
office 2010, Thunderbird, IE11 and my magic jack device there's not much
else running that I can think of at this time. Thanks again for the
explanation.
On 10/30/2015 3:50 AM, valiant8086 wrote:
Hi.
Adding more ram does definitely increase performance, but after a
certain point it stops making a noticeable difference. In this case
the real bottleneck is the cpu. A fast processor running on 2gb of ram
would run windows 7 just fine, I'd know, have done it. I've also
upgraded from 1 gb to 2 gb in my own netbook, and that helped, but
even going from such a small amount to double that didn't make it
fast. With a netbook like that, 2gb is the perfect amount, anything
more than that is a bit of a waste. Ram memory serves the purpose of
holding onto data that the processor needs to deal with. A fast
processor will chew through 2 gb of ram quicker and keep it from being
filled up as much, but adding more ram will give the capacity to hold
onto more data at once for the processor. But just because you can put
more people in line doesn't necessarily mean you can take care of more
people at once, after a certain point. Additionally, if you don't have
enough ram, the OS will be able to figure out what data is being used
the least amount, and store that in a special place on the hard disk.
While that data will be accessed much more slowly from a hard disk, it
is little used data and generally you won't experience serious
reductions of performance just because you're forced to store running
data on the disk. The OS will adapt to what capacity it has within
reason, 2gb is enough for basic computing because it gives you just
enough room to keep frequently used data in the ram.
That having been said though, upgrading your ram certainly doesn't
hurt, but it's hardly worth paying for more ram to put in a computer
like the one being discussed here, for about twice the cost of the new
ram, provided the netbook can support it (mine can't), you could buy a
whole new tablet computer that will run windows 10 and absolutely
spank the socks off the netbook and do it with a lot better battery
life too. Granted, if you want a transformer that pretends to be a
laptop like I mentioned before, it's going to cost more than twice the
cost of new ram, but my point still stands.
In the case of this netbook, the most logical free solution is try to
clean up the software. Maybe there is a memory leak, this user is
running too much software, one or more applications are conflicting,
etc. Win7 can run decently well on these but they can't run win7 all
that well on top of dealing with some software or other that is eating
too much cpu.
If the cpu is overheating and clocking down (compressed air would
probably fix this). I'd like to know if this user has specific areas
where performance is more a problem than others. Is it really bad in
skype but halfway acceptable most everywhere else? things like that.
Also the old atom processors can be manually clocked, you can force
them to run at around 800 mhz and, while I have actually gotten
windows 7 to run at 430 mhz on my asus netbook by purposefully
underclocking it, that doesn't yield itself to being a very good
performer, rofl. There is a chance this user is using the power saver
power plan, or even perhaps the balanced plan would be causing issues.
Maybe putting the power plan to high performance would help.
Cheers, Aaron Spears, general Partner - Valiant Galaxy Associates
Developing "very good audiogames" for the blind community
http://valiantGalaxy.com Sent with Thunderbird 38.2.0 portable
On 10/29/2015 9:15 AM, Gerald Levy wrote:
Not necessarily. I am running Windows 7 on a Dell Optiflex desktop
that has only 2gb of RAM, and it works just fine, even though the
local hard drive has only 80gb total memory capacity. I don't think
adding another 2gb of RAM would make an appreciable improvement in
performance.
Gerald
-----Original Message----- From: John M.
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 8:53 AM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] downgrading back to xp
Running Win 7 with only two GB of Ram is going to be a frustrating
experience. Can you add an additional two GB of ram to your computer? It
will make a huge difference in the performance of Win 7.
John
----- Original Message ----- From: "leonard morris"
<lmorris1...@gmail.com>
To: "jaws" <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 5:58 PM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] downgrading back to xp
I have a HP netbook with 2 gigs of ram. I upgraded my netbook from
XP to windows seven a while back. I'm using Jaws v15 and I noticed
the netbook is incredibly sluggish. I am wondering if I roll it back
to XP would that speed up the netbook computer?
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