Posted on 08/29/2010 9:14:30 PM PDT by stolinsky
Recently I upgraded the memory on my computer. It runs Windows Vista and was slow with only 1 gigabyte of memory. I had been told that 2 gigabytes were the minimum for optimum function, but I was lazy. Inertia is a property of matter, but regrettably it is also a property of people. Finally I upgraded the memory to 2 gigabytes. Everything is faster, including word processing and Web surfing. Human beings are not computers − except for bureaucrats, that is. But if we stumble along with inadequate memory, everything we do is less efficient. In particular, our knowledge of the world around us − the human equivalent of Web surfing − is seriously impaired. And in a dangerous world, that can be fatal. People learn from the past in order to avoid danger in the present. But if they learn nothing, or if they learn the wrong lessons, they can’t avoid danger.
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I do run Vista on a 1 gig system, my Acer laptop, actually 958 megs, and it does boot up a little slow. I do need to get some crap off the drive though. Vista boots up much better on this 2 gig system, my E-Machine. The laptop in a Semphron (Athlon) that runs at 1.8 GHz and my desktop is a Athlon that runs at 1.6 GHz.
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