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As I know a lot of you have all upgraded to 2 gig of ram, can anyone tell me how much this has improved the speed of their NC10? Even when I have 9 or 10 tabs open and a few other apps I rarely see my usage go above 500meg in task manager. So I wonder how much use another gig will be? I know it gives you more memory for graphics which may help as I find it a little sluggish when set up on a Monitor and running at 1280 X 1024 resolution. Any info would be nice.
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I have seen no performance increase during normal loads on a standard XP setup, and no difference as far as running an external 1280×1024 monitor.
Where I do see a massive increase in performance is through the use of ramdisks (in Linux) to hold various caches thus speeding certain programs like Firefox up. And when I have a lot of applications, or some very large files open. There are also benefits when running Visata and 7 which are better at utilising free memory to store things that it predicts that you will load, which should help to speed up the loading of programs.
I run XP sp3 as supplied and put 2 GB in just because I could. I have noticed no increase in performance, I just have more free RAM. I don’t regret putting it in, but there seems no real reason to for the usage my NC10 has.
I think Samsung did a good job with the setup, with 1 GB this ran snappier than my previous netbook even after I upgraded it to 1.5 GB (which entailed a complete strip down, including removing the motherboard).
I wish I could give a direct comparison but I haven’t used my NC10 with 1 GB. (2 GB went in before the first boot.)
I have noticed the difference between (256 MB/512 MB/1GB) and (more/more/2 GB) on plenty of other XP machines. Before 1 GB XP is often painfully slow unless you’ve really cleaned it up, which is the opposite of most store-bought machines. 1 GB to 2 is very useful for intensive work, multi-multitasking, and graphics-intensive gaming. Those are all things I don’t do on the NC10.
I still recommend it anyway, if only because it’s so cheap, but upgrading is probably not needed in normal usage.
Since I moved to windows 7 my memory usage increased up to 900M-1G in average (usually have chrome, skype, wmplayer and picasa open). With 2G memory bank, you can get rid of pagefile in that case as well.
PS: Chrome can use large amounts of memory when many webapps are running in parallel (google mail, calendar, docs and whatever), having a lot of memory is always an insurance not to start swapping pages on disk… because when it starts, you are really willing to throw the sammy out of the window.
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