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On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 05:53:14PM +0000, Kalyan Vaidyanathan wrote: > 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? http://www.crucial.com PC2100 DDR 512 MB $140 ( 2= 280) http://www.crucial.com/store/listModule.asp?module=DDR+PC2100&cat=RAM&package=allModules PC 133 512 MB $121 (2 = 242) http://www.crucial.com/store/listmodule.asp?module=SDRAM%2C+PC100&Attrib=Package&cat=RAM > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Jeff Kinz, Open-PC, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. jkinz at kinz.org copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at http://www.kinz.org/policy.html. Don't forget to change your password often.
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