"Ralph Mowery" <rmowery28146@earthlink.net> wrote in
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> "Pete D" <no@email.com> wrote in message
> news:4a4461ee$0$2600$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
>> I doubt it, XP only needs 1Gb to run fine why would the manufacturers
>> spend more putting 2Gb in?
>>
> I am not a real power user when it comes to computers, but it seems to
> me that unless you are doing some picture editing or maybe a very few
> other programs (which is not usually done on the netbooks anyway) that
> 1 gb of memory should be plenty. I guess that with memory being
> inexpensive, many want more even if they do not use it or need it.
> Guess that I am saying that you match the computer system to the job
> and the netbooks just dont need much for what they are designed for .
> Then there are people that may want ot do video editing on the netbook
> and will complain about how slow it is.
>
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1GB would be just fine if the netbook were an iphone that will only run
one program at a time, but the 1GB isn't quite enough for my
multitasking email, streaming radio or video, webpages watching my stock
crash and keeping an eye on the satellite and radar weather pages.
There's too many large gif movie spams running at once, loading who
knows what crapware as javascript, to run in 1GB doing other
things.....before the swapping starts.

My Samsung NC10"T", with the touchscreen, also uses more memory with the
touchscreen drivers. Add a bunch of addons running, too, for Firefox to
filter out some of the crap off webpages.

2GB works great for $20 a stick!

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Larry

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