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> I just bought from Dell a laptop (dual-core) and a desktop (quad) for 700
> laptop has a 250 Gb HD and the desktop a 750 Mb HD and a 20 inch screen.
>
> The trick with Dell is that there's always some "special deals" available
> and if you're already a client they bombard you with discount vouchers and
> such. Also, it's sometimes possible to buy at discount or even bulk prices
> (down to 40% off), when one belongs to an organisation that is in
> partnership with Dell.
Damn. My company *is* in a partnership with Dell. We bought 12 new PCs -
OptiPlex 755 with Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz CPU, 2 GB RAM and some
unit. What the heck do you know that I don't???
(As an aside... is there a reason why Dell is always 3x more expensive
than, say, HP, IBM, Acer, any other company on Earth?)
> Unless one works exclusively with text-based applications, there's *** never
> *** enough RAM.
Really? I seem to have way more than I need. It's almost never fully
utilised, except when trying to build huge histograms. (Not a common
activity, obviously.)
> Others have mentioned it already, but even cheap cameras and
> camcorder can now generate massive amounts of data and one needs a lot of
> RAM to handle this smoothly.
Well, I was editing CDs on a machine with 2 MB of RAM about 10 years
ago... For complex video effects I guess you do need to hold quite a bit
of data in RAM at once though.
> Particularly, non-geek family members can be
> extremely Gigabytes-hungry once they figured out that one can take
> great-looking movies of everything that moves ("no, you can't attach 15 Gb =
> 90 min of high-def wailing baby movie to your email and send it to all your
> friends")...
That's not even funny.
Sure, I can see needing huge amounts of HD space. I'm just not seeing
much need for huge RAM. And besides, I was talking about the bare
minimum amount of RAM required for Vista to even consider operating.
Presumably if Vista needs 2 GB to run, if you want to edit video *as
well* you'd need even more RAM...
(BTW... I did wonder why the hell WeV has 4x 360 GB drives. Until I
discovered that every single one of them is full to busting with illegal
DVDs he's downloaded. *shivers*)
> But even for non-graphic, professional applications, there's never enough
> RAM anyway: the more you have, the more you will be tempted to use and will
> end up using: Law of the Constantly Maxed Out Resources.
Other than audio and video data (which is inherantly large), I can't
think of anything you can do with a computer that actually uses much
memory. Playing games involves audio and video data, but I'm
hard-pressed to think of anything else...
(Unless you're running some kind of server. Don't do that unless you
have stacks of... well, everything really!)
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