Computers

[bertine]

Last week I realized that my home computer was 4 years old. Weird. I also realized that it only had a gig of RAM in it, which might be why it is seems so slow at times (my work computer is pretty beefy). I also have this weird random extra computer that I used to back things up and store my music collection but it didn't work out as well as I thought it would.

So... I am buying an external hard drive for my home computer, maxing out the RAM in it (8 gigs!) and fixing up that other computer to give to my sister. This is making me feel like I am decluttering, which is good because I have been feeling the need to do so since Eric got back and has been going through his stuff in the dining room.

Comments

[bertine.livejournal.com]

I know but this way I don't have to think about it when I upgrade.

[jayp39.livejournal.com]

I had the same thought process but having 4GB of ram made my 32 bit xp install unstable. I'm not sure exactly why but I think it has to do with RAM pushing up the address space of PCI, which even though I set up my motherboard to remap the PCI range to below 4GB, I suspect that some of it was ending up not addressable.

I'm running XP x64 now and it's completely stable, but of course driver compatibility isn't so good. I think this is one of Microsoft's bigger failures; not switching to 64-bit with Vista or Windows 7, even though the baseline amount of RAM on systems is rapidly growing. As long as x64 is some special, it will have lackluster support.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

I have a 64-bit machine at work and I agree that the support is pretty lackluster.

I'll try it and see. Seriously, the ram was so cheap that I am not conserned about having to roll back.