On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:29:04 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>I'm failing to see any meaningful performance difference...

I boot an XP system with only minimal software running (virus protection, Novell
client, Windows services) and am using 160MB instantly.  I'm at 346MB with Firefox,
Free Agent and a calendar opened.
If I open a few office documents and my development environment, I'll be even further
over 256MB.  There would definitely be lag from drive swapping (thrashing) while
switching applications or running
a memory intensive application.  

I'm surprised you don't see a difference.  Do you only ever run one simple application
at a time?

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