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Notebookdeluxe Laptop Guides - How Much Ram Memory I Need in My Laptop?

RAM is the acronym for Random Access Memory, if we look closely at the name we can quickly understand is a type of memory, but same time we will wonder, why random?
The explanation is simple, it means that every single byte of this memory can be accessed without passing through the previous bytes without reducing speed, and the computer use it as a “notepad” where it holds programs and data for quick access.

This kind of memory is volatile, which means it only holds data while the computer is on, and it’s changing constantly as the operative system is working.

Due to the fast advancement that the technology is experiencing, especially in the CPU field, there are more and more requirements in terms of amount of RAM in order to enjoy a good performance in the latest machines and Operative Systems.

But this doesn’t mean that we should aim for more RAM than we need for our purposes.

 We must consider first what Operative System we want to use. If we aim for a 32bit version of Windows XP or Vista, doesn’t matter if we get 4 or 8Gb of RAM, the system will use 3.5Gb of RAM at max, and the rest will be wasted, but if our Operative System is a 64bit version, things are different since the maximum amount of RAM we can use on those OSs is just way higher than the RAM we can mount on our computer nowadays*.

* Please consider that all the comments included on this guide are based on the posting time, more concretely in June 2008. As the technology advances, this assumptions might get outdated.

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