| Memory Myths. | | | | from the vendors with a preconceived notion that the |
| There is a very interesting observation made by one | | | | higher the RAM the faster a Laptop would be. This |
| of these memory improvement guys who sell their | | | | notion though not wrong is not entirely correct. The |
| books on the Television. He claims everybody has a | | | | RAM is faster than the main storage memory, |
| good memory but we just fail to recognize it and utilize | | | | however, it is still much slower than the processor and |
| it the proper way. Sorry Sir, I am very much aware | | | | requires something called a cache to come on equal |
| how much my memory is (its weak) and I know how | | | | footing with the processor. Therefore, more RAM |
| to use it (I keep blaming it for all my faults). | | | | does not necessarily mean faster and more efficient |
| | | | Laptop. |
| The Race For More. The memory hunger of Laptops | | | | The Tradeoff. |
| has been never ending. The memories have increased | | | | The ideal configuration of a Laptop would decide the |
| manifold and starting from a modest 32 Kb the RAM | | | | optimum amount of RAM that can utilise all the existing |
| now boasts of speeds in the vicinity of 16Gb. One | | | | resources of the Laptop. Thus the requirement of a |
| remembers the 1980s Bill Gates comment regarding | | | | Laptop memory would indeed depend upon the user |
| RAM, when he said "Who needs more than 64 Kb of | | | | requirement of running applications on the Laptop. Thus, |
| RAM Anyway?" Eat your heart out Mr. Gates, your | | | | a gaming Laptop would have a totally different |
| creation has clearly overtaken your own imaginations. | | | | requirement of Laptop RAM vis-...-vis a Laptop used |
| The Laptop memory today is increasing at a fast | | | | entirely for Office work or say multimedia. |
| pace to accommodate the advance computing | | | | The additional data that the multimedia content device |
| softwares that are being flooded into the market | | | | loads on a Laptop while running generally slows down |
| everyday. | | | | the machine for a short span of time. It may even |
| Laptop RAMs. | | | | hang it for some time. However, even with a higher |
| Any average Laptop user would tell you that a Laptop | | | | capacity RAM the effect wont change since the |
| RAM of 1Gb would be good enough to run almost all | | | | Graphic accelerator may be slow. The case may be |
| the applications including the 3-D Graphics and | | | | different for different accessories. However, the fact |
| multimedia applications. However, it is increasingly | | | | about Laptop Memory that it can speed up the Laptop |
| common to observe people demanding more RAM | | | | only upto a certain extent holds good. |