[pchelpers] Memory and Windows XP

Hi folks,

You may have heard that Windows XP likes memory. What you may not know
is how much it likes it. Well, the other day, I was looking at several
computers with 128M of memory, and I was testing memory in one of them
to find out how much each stick was. One turned out to be a 64M stick,
and the computer took a while to boot up. The computer was one where I
couldn't get the BIOS screen to come up to report the memory size, so
I just let it go into Windows XP and checked the size there.

Anyway, to summarize, Windows XP stabilized on the desktop in LESS
than HALF the time with 256M of memory than with 128M of memory.

My seat-of-the-pants impression is that doubling the amount of memory
makes a much bigger difference than doubling the CPU speed. At work,
I've seen 300Mhz 512M Windows 2000 computers make 128M 1Ghz Windows
2000 systems look slow. Doubling the amount of memory is, of course,
approximately a linear increase in price, while doubling the CPU speed
raises the price quite a bit more than just twice.

-- 
Scott.




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