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On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:06:27 -0600,
Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2007-12-13, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> ____/ 7 on Thursday 13 December 2007 16:45 : \____
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>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> ____/ Linonut on Thursday 13 December 2007 14:06 : \____
>>>>
>>>>> On the whole, though, I'm quite happy with this system and this amount
>>>>> of RAM.
>>>>
>>>> Pass some over. I'm still on 256 MB over here, with KDE 4 alpha at times.
>>>> Can this thing run Vista, let alone have it installed?
>>>
>>>
>>> Its becoming dirt cheap - about 60 pounds for 4Gb.
>>
>> Yes, but who needs so much memory? Maybe I should say: /what/ needs so much
>> memory?
>>
>
> Video production, photo editing are the two big ones that come to mind.
>
I regularly run processes on >2GB log files, it's nice to be able to
snarf that all into memory first, and work on it there, rather than bit
by bit.
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