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> > So, the new RAM is about the price of 3 months of free coffee? In return > the PCs boot faster, run lots faster, fail less often, and the programmer's > stride isn't broken while s/he sits and waits for a groggy screen. > Wow. RAM does all of that? Does it cure cancer, too? In reality, RAM won't realize any of those benefits unless the computer was previously starved for memory. In my case, I ran my computer on 256mb of RAM for over a year with disk swapping turned off, and it made no difference. That means upgrading it will make no difference. Of course, when you ARE short on RAM it causes big problems in Windows because the way Windows does it's disk paging is downright silly. I agree that if you need it, upgrading the RAM is worthwhile, and very inexpensive for the gains. Any programmer who can't figure out how to insert a DIMM into his PC really needs to get out of computers and become an accountant or something.
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