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Acmlm's Board - I2 Archive - Hardware/Software - Oh god YES. More RAM, Sweet RAM! | | | |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 644/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Hehe, I just installed some additonal ram to my little iBook. All I can say right now is YES, oh god YES, YES YES YES YES YES!!!! hehe, Firefox has picked up speed dramatically. I knew it was a memory problem that was causing it to be a little weird from time to time, but now it's behaving itself MUCH better I had 256Mb, now I have 640Mb. The difference is dramatic and the scrolling in Firefox is now so smooth it's sexy. Don't you just love it when adding more RAM actually makes a noticable difference? |
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BMF98567 BLACK HAS BUILT A SILLY DICE-MAZE! GO! Current list of BURNING FURY >8( recipients: - Yiffy Kitten (x2) - Xkeeper Level: 53 Posts: 425/1261 EXP: 1094149 For next: 62970 Since: 03-15-04 From: Blobaria Special Move: Rising Meatloaf Backhand Combo Since last post: 21 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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How does Firefox chew up 256MB of memory? Do you have a lot of other stuff running in the background or something? I'd like to get some more RAM so a few specific games in MAME stop thrashing my swap file. I've got a single 256MB PC2700 module in there right now...I should see if CompUSA has them on sale again, as 512MB would be oh so loverly. |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 647/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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I'm not sure how it chews up so much, but I think it's that it's still beta and a little weird in OS X. It's better than version 0.9 was, that'd work itself up into a crash within an hour of using it. Total freeze meltdown. I have other programs that will really test things, but I had noticed that Firefox is weirder in OS X than it was in Windows... |
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FreeDOS Lava Lotus Wannabe-Mod :< Level: 59 Posts: 790/1657 EXP: 1648646 For next: 24482 Since: 03-15-04 From: Seattle Since last post: 6 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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Nearly everything goes better with more RAM (except for DOS). You that Camino is a browser specifically for OS X, right? The screenshot looks like Firefox. |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 650/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Camino's a bit different, and nowhere near as customisable. I like it, but I like Firefox a HELL of a lot more. 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. |
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DurfarC Beezo Level: 33 Posts: 104/483 EXP: 218551 For next: 10628 Since: 09-04-04 From: Norway Since last post: 20 days Last activity: 12 hours |
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Originally posted by Tarale You're right. Just to mention it, on my old computer (from 1998), it was only 64mb RAM, but when I bought this bad boy in 2003, I got 1024mb RAM! That was a great, noticable difference. Not only the RAM, but everything got better, including the internet connection. That was a great experience... |
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neotransotaku Baby Mario 戻れたら、 誰も気が付く Level: 87 Posts: 1538/4016 EXP: 6220548 For next: 172226 Since: 03-15-04 From: Outside of Time/Space Since last post: 11 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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Originally posted by BMF54123 it isn't that Firefox that chews up 256MB of memory but the OS takes a lot of it up, thus, not leaving much for all the other applications. Thus, when the percentage of memory taken up by the OS is less than half, then you will have more memory speed up. anyways, my friend's iBook didn't run so good with 256 but when he upgraded to 1.5GB of RAM, it flies |
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Ran-chan Moldorm eek, when are they going to stop growing... Level: 143 Posts: 4530/12781 EXP: 35293588 For next: 538220 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima District, Tokyo - Japan Since last post: 12 hours Last activity: 12 hours |
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This may be a stupid question but is an iBook a mac computer? I only have 512mb RAM on my computer. I think I need some more... 512mb RAM isn |
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neotransotaku Baby Mario 戻れたら、 誰も気が付く Level: 87 Posts: 1549/4016 EXP: 6220548 For next: 172226 Since: 03-15-04 From: Outside of Time/Space Since last post: 11 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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an iBook is a laptop made by Apple as for 512mb not being enough, i think it is operating systems taking too much memory |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 652/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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The thing is, other than Firefox, OS X is quite efficient with memory. I don't get any lag with Photoshop, or any other application, only Firefox. Thankfully, there haven't been any major problems since 0.9, like I said. That little doozy didn't work AT ALL, so I had to use Camino for a while. Firefox would lock up the machine until I force quit... And yep, it's an apple, yaaay! |
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BMF98567 BLACK HAS BUILT A SILLY DICE-MAZE! GO! Current list of BURNING FURY >8( recipients: - Yiffy Kitten (x2) - Xkeeper Level: 53 Posts: 428/1261 EXP: 1094149 For next: 62970 Since: 03-15-04 From: Blobaria Special Move: Rising Meatloaf Backhand Combo Since last post: 21 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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Originally posted by TaraleWell, 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. |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 668/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Originally posted by BMF54123Originally posted by TaraleWell, 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 (edited by Tarale on 10-26-04 10:45 AM) |
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Ran-chan Moldorm eek, when are they going to stop growing... Level: 143 Posts: 4550/12781 EXP: 35293588 For next: 538220 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima District, Tokyo - Japan Since last post: 12 hours Last activity: 12 hours |
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Colleen Administrator Level: 136 Posts: 4786/11302 EXP: 29369328 For next: 727587 Since: 03-15-04 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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I would think that the very first match on a Google search for the term Expos | |||
FreeDOS Lava Lotus Wannabe-Mod :< Level: 59 Posts: 795/1657 EXP: 1648646 For next: 24482 Since: 03-15-04 From: Seattle Since last post: 6 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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HAW. I can only imagine how incredibly unstable such a feature would be in Windows... | |||
Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 674/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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I can't even imagine Windows windows zooming off the screen, or tiling themselves like they do in Expos (edited by Tarale on 10-27-04 01:25 PM) |
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Kitten Yiffer Purple wand Furry moderator Vivent l'exp����¯�¿�½������©rience de signalisation d'amusement, ou bien ! Level: 135 Posts: 5611/11162 EXP: 28824106 For next: 510899 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 4 min. |
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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. |
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neotransotaku Baby Mario 戻れたら、 誰も気が付く Level: 87 Posts: 1568/4016 EXP: 6220548 For next: 172226 Since: 03-15-04 From: Outside of Time/Space Since last post: 11 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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Originally posted by Tarale |
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DarkSlaya POOOOOOOOOOOORN! Level: 88 Posts: 2311/4249 EXP: 6409254 For next: 241410 Since: 05-16-04 From: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 8 hours Last activity: 5 hours |
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I remember switching from 32mb to 256mb. Good times. |
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