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toddpedlar · #17 (**permalink**) 05-13-2008, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Archlute

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Originally Posted by Reformingstudent

My PC has 1.0 GB Memory and 200GB Hard Drive and a 3500 AMD Athlon 64
processor. I am not computer savvy so I don't know if that's good or not. When I bought it two years ago I thought I had enough but now I'm not so sure. It's a lot better then what I used to have though. My last PC ran Windows ME and was real slow and Kept crashing all the time. made me wish I never had bought or looked at a PC.

If you can get to 2 GB RAM, then it will be just great for Vista. You know, I used Windows ME once.

Once.

'Tis true. The reason being that the Vista OS takes up 80% of your 1 Gig just for itself, leaving you with a measly 200 MB. Everything that I had read stated that 2 Gigs was the satisfactory minimum.

And you really ought to just get 3 Gig for the best performance. You can use most of 4 (3.4 to be exact, if memory serves, but because of the limitations of a 32-bit system you can't practically use all 4 Gb). Bill's 6pack is truly overkill ('cause unless he's hotwired something, or if he's using Vista-64, he can't access more than about 3.4Gb).