ANOTHER Caveat - And this especially applies to VISTA (Oh, I forgot they call it Mojave now): Many peripherals have no drivers written (yet) to handle 64 bit operating systems. One of the presents my brother gave to himself and his home entertainment system on Xmas was a new HP computer to go with his 42" HP plasma flat screen panel. He got gobs of memory, and to be able to address those gobs, he had the computer pre-installed with Vista 64 to handle 5 or 6 gigs. (one gig, I believe is dedicated to video shadowing) As his flat screen did not come with a broadcast HD receiver (ATSC compatible or something like that?) he figured he'd finally overcome that shorfall with a HD TV card in his 'television computer'. So after months of furtive dismissal of my dissaproval of Vista (and I've never been a microsoft fan) now he's got egg on his face. Maybe he'll have better luck with a Hauppage card - but the one he bought flat out didnt work and the customer service reps he reached didn't seem to understand the issue. The internal BlueRay player - made by LG - did work. However, older releases of movies seem to employ 'dithering' to hike that resolution up to 1240 x 1080p - so the disk might BE B.R. but if you look close enough you can tell that bit by bit - its only been extrapolated from DVD format. -Happy New Year WaV
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Charles Goldsmith <wo...@justfamily.org>wrote: > For most computer users, 2 gig of ram seems to be the sweet spot, this > applies to most power users. The only caveat to that is anyone doing > a lot of graphic or work, photoshop, etc need a lot more. > > And you are correct, XP (32 bit) which is most of the XP installs, can > only address a max of 3.5gb of ram. Anything more is a huge waste. > This applies to all operating systems that are 32 bit. Also, before > you run out and upgrade your XP or Vista to 64 bit, keep in mind, your > motherboard/processor have to support 64 bit as well, or things won't > work as you want. > > Mac users need not worry, OSX is all 64 bit :) > > Charles > > On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 2:44 AM, David <dlocklea...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Check out some of these memory prices on a 1 gig stick of DDR2: > > > > http://www.geeks.com/products_sc.asp?cat=720 > > > > Most are in the $ 15 to $ 20 range. > > > > I don't quiet understand how RAM is not affected much by inflation. > > > > If you bought a desktop computer a year or 2 ago, it probably > > only came with 1 gig of DDR2. Right? > > > > At those prices, why not put 4 gigs of RAM in your computer. > > It is a very simple upgrade. > > > > I believe that most computer users of XP will not be able to use > > more than 4 gigs, and probably wouldn't need to anyways. > > > > Just 10 years ago, I was doing computer drafting at a research > > engineering company and my PC only had 128 kilobytes of RAM, > > and we were excited when the company doubled the RAM to 256 K. > > > > David Locklear > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Give this to a friend: ot-subscr...@texascavers.com > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: ot-unsubscr...@texascavers.com > > For additional commands, e-mail: ot-h...@texascavers.com > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Give this to a friend: ot-subscr...@texascavers.com > To unsubscribe, e-mail: ot-unsubscr...@texascavers.com > For additional commands, e-mail: ot-h...@texascavers.com > >
