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[photon]

[quote="jefito I'd sure like to see some technical documentation that explains that phenomenon. ~jeff[/quote]

I'll bet the software architects at Microsoft would like to see the fix or at least a good explaination as well.

[mangu]

Originally Posted by taffypride

If the Dell version of Ubuntu is limited by the kernel to 1Gb RAM, can we not just reinstall Ubuntu from a different source? Or does the Dell version contain all the correct drivers?

Take a look on this post:
dell-ubuntu-now-supports-2gb-memory-t1257.html

Salu2

[jimmyjimmy]

" Any DDR2 SODIMM (laptop memory chip) that runs at 533 MHz (DDR2-4200) or faster. "

Hi, I have a 1gb mini comming next week, you say faster SODIMM's will work, is there a max speed supported? I would like to get the fastest that it will run :geek:

Thanks!!!

[fartblossom]

Just got this in from newegg. Working fine.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820208407

[R1pp3r]

I did it. not so great difference... You? what' about? find it REALLY useful?

[Beaker02]

Originally Posted by mark62

nothing... if say you already have 1 gig and have plenty of headroom... then absolutely nothing... but i installed 2 gigs any way :ugeek:

can I really expect NO gains by doubleing the RAM? That doesent seem right. are you sure?

[jefito]

Originally Posted by Beaker02

can I really expect NO gains by doubleing the RAM? That doesent seem right. are you sure?

What doesn't seem right about it? What kind of gains would *you* expect?

~jeff

[Beaker02]

can I really expect NO gains by doubleing the RAM? That doesent seem right. are you sure?[/quote]
What doesn't seem right about it? What kind of gains would *you* expect?

~jeff[/quote]

I would expect to be able to run a few more programs at once

i would expect Outlook to run faster

I would expect a degree of the ocational slugishness to go away.

I would expext the same type of results from doubleing the RAM on any unit, mini or not.

Are my expectations unrealistic?

[harstad23]

Originally Posted by Beaker02

can I really expect NO gains by doubleing the RAM? That doesent seem right. are you sure?

What doesn't seem right about it? What kind of gains would *you* expect?

~jeff[/quote]

I would expect to be able to run a few more programs at once

i would expect Outlook to run faster

I would expect a degree of the ocational slugishness to go away.

I would expext the same type of results from doubleing the RAM on any unit, mini or not.

Are my expectations unrealistic?

No. Doubling the ram would most certainly help with all of that.

I'm not sure what thay guy is talking about.

[jefito]

What doesn't seem right about it? What kind of gains would *you* expect?

~jeff

I would expect to be able to run a few more programs at once

Sure, you should be able to do that. The question is what programs, and whether the CPU can handle that load or not. The Atom is not a superfast CPU.

i would expect Outlook to run faster

I don't know why you'd expect that, unless maybe in the case of Outlook, it can cache more stuff or something, depending on how much RAM there is available. Do you know the cause of Outlook's sluggishness?

I would expect a degree of the ocational slugishness to go away.

I don't know why you'd expect that, unless more RAM available prevents paging from taking place. If that's the case, you should consider turning off paging, too, just to make sure.

I would expext the same type of results from doubleing the RAM on any unit, mini or not.

That seems circular to me. Does that mean that doubling RAM always makes a system faster? I doubt that that's the case. Depends on what you're measuring -- for example, hibernation automatically becomes slower because you need double the disk space to hold the image of all that RAM, and double the time to read/write it.

Are my expectations unrealistic?

Expectations are always tricky. Adding more RAM won't automagically make your system any faster; it *might* make your system be able to operate more quickly by being able to hold more stuff in RAM, but there's no guarantees there. And of course it all depends on what kind of workload you're throwing at it. I can bring my quad-core 3Gb desktop to its knees with Visual Studio, but my 1Gb Mini seems to have hit a sweet spot, performance-wise, for the work that I do on it, and I'm happy with it.

~jeff