Acmlm's Board - I2 Archive - Hardware/Software - Oh god YES. More RAM, Sweet RAM!
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Jesper
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Originally posted by HyperHacker
Try Ctrl+Tab. Works in Mozilla and VB6.
Not that I was talking about Mac OS X, using Command+Tab, which is its Alt+Tab equivalent, which I mentioned, although not quite, which I also mentioned, or anything. |
Ran-chan
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Originally posted by HyperHacker
Try Ctrl+Tab. Works in Mozilla and VB6.
Yep, it works...I just tried it... Pretty cool to switch between the tabs like that...
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FreeDOS
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Ctrl-Tab also works in Gaim. Unfortunately, I can't use it because KDE is hogging that combo for switching destops (anyone know how to turn it off short of changing the source?). I believe the combo for switching between windows and tabs first came around with Netscape, but I could be mistaken. |
HyperLamer
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Try Ctrl+Tab. Works in Mozilla and VB6. |
Jesper
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OS X runs on 128MB of RAM, but saying it's acceptable on 128MB is like saying one of those 'vegetable' paralyzed people live an entertaining, fun and enjoyable life all the time. OS X absolutely flies with 512MB and over, and preformance goes steadily up until atleast 1.5GB, and the max on the iBook is 1.25GB so you really have nothing to lose.
OS X also caches a LOT to disk which is both good and bad. On my Powerbook G3 with a 4GB HD (hey, it was big in 1998, okay?) and 1GB free space, which pretty much is filled up after around 10 hours of effective usage.
As for Expos |
HyperLamer
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That program sounds cool. I wonder if I could make something like it for Windoze?  (It does have the Minimize feature though. Hit Win+M to minimize everything, or Win+D to just bring the desktop to the front, then hit it again to go back to normal.) |
kitty
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Right now, Windows does not benefit from over 512MB of RAM in standard use - web browsing, email, AIM, etc. Games don't benefit from over 1GB. However, video editing software and the like can benefit from over 4GB of RAM (You need an AMD 64 or other 64-bit processor to go over 4GB).
I have 1GB of RAM and I'm more than content. I even disabled the swap file for a long time - until Adobe bitched that I needed it to install Premier.
Right now the most MAJOR performance gain I can get is a new video card - I'd get over 10x the performance in some games/situations if I got a top-of-the-line card over my GF4 Ti4400! The next would be CPU, replacing my 3200+ with an overclocked socket 939 A64 would get me up to 1.5x more (50%) in some instances like encoding etc, and 1.2x or so (20%) in games. The next would actually be a HARD DRIVE - I'd notice drastic speedups in boot time and heavy file reading/writing if I replaced my ATA133 drives with a SATA WD Raptor!
RAM would barely benefit me at all... maybe 1-2% in games, because there is more than enough system RAM to handle the AI, map, etc. It's the video card that is the bottleneck! |
Ran-chan
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Hmm...so that |
Surlent
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My old computer had 128 MBs of SD-RAM, that one here has 512 MB of DDR-RAM and I hardly ever used more than the half of it.
I like programs using very low amounts of RAM. A Firefox with several tabs doesn't take ore than 40 to 60 MBs of RAM after a longer session (only when I opened 277 tabs in one window once, I noticed a "slight" slow-down |
Colin
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*whistles* Now that's not a bad feature at all.
Then again, I'm extremely used to the taskbar and Alt+Tab'ing my way through windows... but I can't complain about that. Sweet, Apple. |
Xeolord
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Feel the love Tarale. 
I recently upgraded from 256DDR to 768, and I've definently noticed a difference, especially with games like Halo PC.
Still, I'm saving up some cheese for my own computer here soon ... I'm going for 1.5gigs of Ram, or around there.  |
DarkSlaya
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I remember switching from 32mb to 256mb. Good times. |
neotransotaku
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Originally posted by Tarale
EDIT: Screenshot of me expos
Ailure
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I think there is a way to make the alt-tab thing to have a small preview of the window instead of icons, but that's it. 
I have 512 MB RAM, but i'm considering buying more. It's just not enough when you run some programs and a memory consuming game. |
Tarale
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I can't even imagine Windows windows zooming off the screen, or tiling themselves like they do in Expos |
BMF98567
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HAW. I can only imagine how incredibly unstable such a feature would be in Windows...  |
FreeDOS
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Expos |
Colin
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I would think that the very first match on a Google search for the term Expos |
Ran-chan
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It |
Tarale
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Originally posted by BMF54123
Originally posted by Tarale
and yes, most things do run better with more RAM. The exception being my old Win98 box which actually ran worse... don't ask me why.
Well, Win98 has problems managing 512MB or more, and a lot of older CPUs and motherboards can't cache more than x megabytes (my limit is 128MB), resulting in slower performance.
Yeah, I went up to 512MB. It's a known bug in Win98SE, there may have actually been a patch for it, but I can't remember. I remember looking it up and I thought there was a hotfix or something, but I decided to install WinXP instead.
I just know that within the hour, I was getting weirdness. ie, not enough memory to run AIM. Yes, AIM. 
Weee....and I've noticed a dramatic improvement in expos |
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