Darren New wrote:
> Gilles Tran wrote:
>> 2 GB is enough,
> 
> 1 GB is "enough" if you keep a clean install and you don't use it for 
> memory-sucking programs like POV-Ray.

POV-Ray is memory-sucking? I haven't checked recently, but IIRC last 
time I looked, Explore.exe uses about 30MB to POV-Ray's 2MB. (Depending 
on what you're rendering, obviously.) IE or Firefox also drinks RAM like 
it's going out of fashion...

> The laptop will probably come 
> loaded with all kinds of "helpers" that for some reason try to replace 
> (poorly) what Vista does for you anyway (display controllers, NIC 
> controllers, etc).

Yes. Acer especially seems to like to do this. It's usually easy to 
remove all that stuff.

(I *really* hope this laptop comes with propper restore CDs. I got an HP 
a while back, and rather than give you a restore CD, they make you go 
through the initial Windows setup process, and then order you to burn a 
drive backup to [several] CDs/DVDs. In other words, *you* pay for the 
cost of something to restore from, and you can't restore to factory 
condition.)

> But 1G leaves about 450M comfortably free on my 
> wife's machine, so it only thrashes around a little when she has five or 
> six programs open. Of course,   a laptop is probably going to have a 
> slower disk, too, so...

Yes, 5200 RPM disk. (Like it matters...)

The laptop comes with 2GB, and I've ordered an additional 2GB because it 
was cheap.

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