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Originally posted by Cosmic Fur And then you have to remember that not everyone uses the same rig as you. As soon as you start making assumptions about how much RAM your users will have is when you start losing those same users. and where are you getting these ridiculously cheap RAM sticks? 1GB for less than $25? Sign me up.

www.summitdirect.com check their pricelist, RAM is effin cheap these days

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Originally posted by Engine9 you know some ppl run more then ONE application at the same time may be u are ok with MSN and firefox eating up 4 gigs of ram but they really dont need that much hence why i dont usually upgrade especialy with ms products, bloatware

I often have more than 10 apps (some are small, mind you) open at any given time and I'm almost never over 1.8GB of memory usage. The only time it spikes to more than 3GB is when playing certain games.

And if you want to keep using your ancient 7 year old XP, 1.7GHz Netburst-core Celeron and 256MB RAM go right ahead, I'll be trucking along with progress.


And for Dima:
http://www.ncix.com/products/index....facture=Buffalo

http://www.ncix.com/products/index....facture=Buffalo

http://www.ncix.com/products/index....facture=CORSAIR

http://www.ncix.com/products/index....AL%20TECHNOLOGY

http://www.ncix.com/products/index....cture=Transcend

http://www.ncix.com/products/index....CZ%20Technology

http://www.ncix.com/products/index....facture=Patriot


That's just one store. Where've you been for the past year?

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Originally posted by VERTiG0 That's just one store. Where've you been for the past year?

Not buying RAM, apparently.

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Originally posted by VERTiG0 Who cares, if you're worrying about RAM usage these days as an end user on a modern home PC there's something wrong. 4GB of RAM can be had for way less than $100.

So are you running Vista for x64? Because if not (and most people aren't), then you can't actually get 4 GB for any price.

I can appreciate that most people have more than they know what to do with, but there's something seriously wrong when a web browser takes up twice as much memory as Photoshop or even Visual Studio.

I'm more concerned about the GDI leaks than the generic memory leaks, though. It remains to be seen whether or not they've truly fixed those.

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I just bought 2GB of RAM for my Macbook a couple months ago for like $60 with shipping and taxes.

Can't complain at all for that price especially when its like $100 for 1GB @ The Mac store or something.

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Originally posted by DigiNut So are you running Vista for x64? Because if not (and most people aren't), then you can't actually get 4 GB for any price.

Of course I am. I'm not that dense. Also I never really experienced the infamous Firefox memory leaks, even with 12+ tabs open it never went over 500MB. Though, MSN Messenger has routinely seen 800+ at times for some reason.

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Originally posted by VERTiG0 Of course I am. I'm not that dense. Also I never really experienced the infamous Firefox memory leaks, even with 12+ tabs open it never went over 500MB. Though, MSN Messenger has routinely seen 800+ at times for some reason.

You should not need 500MB to surf the web, and you should not need 800MB to chat with your friends.

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Originally posted by VERTiG0 Though, MSN Messenger has routinely seen 800+ at times for some reason.

You're joking? The program that people use to IM each other...800MB? Am I glad I don't use it.

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Originally posted by VERTiG0 4GB of RAM can be had for way less than $100.

WAY less? Link please!

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Originally posted by infinity HiGH WAY less? Link please!

He did post list above.

You can easily buy a stick of 1GB for $20.

I got my 4GB of OCZ XTC Platinum Rev 2 PC2-6400 for $78. Mind you, this was back in December.

12 tabs open. Seems pretty solid to me

PS, I haven't installed the final version of 3.0 yet and I'm still on RC3.

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