Larry wrote:
> "Ralph Mowery" <rmowery28146@earthlink.net> wrote in
> news:B6Gdnd04qML6U9nXnZ2dnUVZ_uydnZ2d@earthlink.co m:
>
>> "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.
>>
>>
>>
>
> 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!
>

I do all of that plus run CorelDraw and CorelPaint, average 12 open tabs
in firefox, run Openoffice and Thunderbird, and a separate window for
for video camera monitoring and 1 Gb is more than adequate,

that Samsung must be a slow POS....