RAM - follow on

[Kalyan Vaidyanathan]

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-
>
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