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| Thread ID: 120980 | 2011-10-06 05:50:00 | Ram Upgrade for laptop | Scouse (83) | PC World Chat |
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| 1235559 | 2011-10-06 05:50:00 | Hi folks. Planning to buy my wife a Toshiba C660 laptop with W7 Home Premium 64. Mainly to play with graphics, camera work. Would there be any obvious benefit in upgrading the present 2 GB ram to 4 GB ram - on offer? I have no experience with W7 64 bit. normally using two PCs, one with Home Premium 32 bit with 2 GB ram as a general tool and the other older machine with XP Pro. Any advice appreciated. | Scouse (83) | ||
| 1235560 | 2011-10-06 06:00:00 | It will help, if you put as much ram as it can take (which is 8GB I think). if you use 64 bit | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1235561 | 2011-10-06 09:17:00 | Agreed - especially if you're dealing with graphics, you want at least 4GB of RAM. You'd be surprised how RAM-hungry modern Windows applications are. | george12 (7) | ||
| 1235562 | 2011-10-06 17:48:00 | It will help in many ways. Having 4GB is essential to the smooth running of windows 7, particularly 64bit versions. Also, have 2 sticks of 2GB will allow your laptop to run it as dual channel which should speed things up considerably too. If it was my laptop, I couldn't sleep at night knowing I only had 2GB of ram in it :P |
jareemon (5207) | ||
| 1235563 | 2011-10-06 19:14:00 | My wife's Toshiba laptop is 32bit Win7. It came with 2Gb RAM. Although I know 32bit can only use a max of 3Gb RAM, I added 2 Gb (might change to 64bit sometime) - the extra 1 Gb made a significant improvement in performance. So yes, as others have already said, going from 2 to 4 Gb on your laptop is a good move. |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 1235564 | 2011-10-06 20:03:00 | I'd say it's worth it - anything you buy now should be running 64bit, might be worth checking with whoever you're buying it from just to make sure it is 64 bit. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 1235565 | 2011-10-06 22:43:00 | Thank you folks. Advice appreciated. Upgrade it is........... | Scouse (83) | ||
| 1235566 | 2011-10-09 03:12:00 | With ram decreasing in price, and the laptop being 64bit, go for 8gb, it will make a big difference to processing of photo's. I have the 17inch i5 Toshiba and noticed a good increase in processing speed when working with raw files in Lightroom and NikonView. |
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