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Thanks for the quick responses. I was asked to look at www.memorysuppliers.com to buy. They price 2x512MB at $478. Any other recommendations for good, reliable, and of course economical suppliers? thx, -kalyan >From: dsr at tao.merseine.nu >To: Kalyan Vaidyanathan <kalyan_v at hotmail.com> >CC: discuss at blu.org >Subject: Re: RAM >Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 17:30:02 +0000 > >On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 05:26:36PM +0000, Kalyan Vaidyanathan wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a Dell Dimension 8100 desktop with 1.3 GHz. I have redhat 8.0 >and > > Windows ME. I am thinking of upgrading my memory. I currently have >128MB > > RAM. Since it is ME, Microsoft says that max recommended is 512 MB. > > I would like to use my linux box to install and run Tomcat and a java >ide. > > Do you think 512 (+128 existing) should be sufficient for reasonable > > productivity? > >First, no amount of extra RAM is going to hurt performance unless >Microsoft is doing something very twisted. Linux will happily use as >much extra as you install. > >I find that 384MB is comfortable for most home desktops these days, but >512MB is pretty cheap, so go right ahead. > >-dsr- > >-- >Network engineer / pre-sales engineer available in the Boston area. >http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr >_______________________________________________ >Discuss mailing list >Discuss at blu.org >http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _________________________________________________________________ <b>MSN 8:</b> Get 6 months for $9.95/month http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup
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