Comments on: The power of SCIENCE compels you! http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/the-power-of-science-compels-you/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: mulenmar http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/the-power-of-science-compels-you/#comment-45922 Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:11:03 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/the-power-of-science-compels-you/#comment-45922 You should read the rest of the blog before saying things like, “You have no idea how fast ram can get ‘eat up’.”

K.Mandla listens to music, plays movies, and all that on “older” hardware. Quite happily, too. And has a more modern machine for the very few things that need more CPU power.

As for getting things done, I’m working on a spreadsheet in OpenOffice, viewing a couple websites in Chromium (not the most memory-friendly browser when you have a lot of tabs open), a tabbed file manager, and STILL only have a memory usage of 120MB. I can play 720p movies easily, too. And this is a laptop from 2001.

RAM cannot get “eaten up” when what little there is using it isn’t WASTING it.

]]> By: Dr. Don http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/the-power-of-science-compels-you/#comment-45917 Sat, 16 Oct 2010 09:14:39 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/the-power-of-science-compels-you/#comment-45917 The purpose of extra memory is not necessarily always to make your system run faster.

It is to keep it from running slower.

A computer runs slower when it runs out of memory & starts to use the harddisk for virtual ram. This can easily slow the computer down 1,000 + times slower. Ram is usually measured Milliseconds while harddisk seek heads barely manage thousandths of a second.

If you use something like IE6 to be “light weight” then you are begging to be infected by some virus. Active-X drive by installs anyone? Hello malware!

No antivirus? Sure you are fast!

1 GB ram should be minimum recommendation for ANY os. While there are many OS that can run fine on less, when you have to get things done, work on movies, watch movies, encode movies, burn dvd’s, process rar SFX files, batch unzip compressed container files, etc…

You have no idea how fast ram can get “eat up”.
Maybe you live in the dark ages & just use your computers for simple text processing, but not everyone else does.

]]> By: Favorite computer myths « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/the-power-of-science-compels-you/#comment-44657 Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:22:47 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/the-power-of-science-compels-you/#comment-44657 [...] actual, in-your-face scientific proof that it doesn’t work, you can look at my experiment here, or any of a number of other similar experiments elsewhere on the Web; Google is your friend. [...]

]]> By: A reasonable investment or two « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/the-power-of-science-compels-you/#comment-44634 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:06:46 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/the-power-of-science-compels-you/#comment-44634 [...] don’t cling to the myth that dumping gobs of memory into your machine will arbitrarily make it run faster. I have in the [...]

]]> By: Microsoft’s New Ad http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/the-power-of-science-compels-you/#comment-39610 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:52:35 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/the-power-of-science-compels-you/#comment-39610 [...] the girl has is a few GB of RAM…I’m not sure that’s decisive. Further reading here and [...]

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/the-power-of-science-compels-you/#comment-38126 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:58:58 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/the-power-of-science-compels-you/#comment-38126 Skip back a little bit through the links. You’ve reinforced my original point: Unless your workload calls for it, more memory does not magically make your computer faster.

]]> By: demex http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/the-power-of-science-compels-you/#comment-38125 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:55:59 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/the-power-of-science-compels-you/#comment-38125 Of course they are identical. Those tests test the processor more than the RAM. RAM is good for things that use large amounts of data. Open up 10 tabs in Firefox and then try opening Office and see which is faster. Do multitasking on it and then test which is better. If all someone is doing is word processing or checking email then that is fine. If they are going to be watching youtube videos, listening to iTunes, and writing a paper like most kids these days then go for 1 gig of RAM at least.

]]> By: Timmy http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/the-power-of-science-compels-you/#comment-37675 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:41:20 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/the-power-of-science-compels-you/#comment-37675 Two reasons I like having 512MB of RAM:
1) Virtual machines.
2) Live environments (I think the Ubuntu LiveCD needs 300-something to run, for example…)

]]> By: Browser Startups http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/the-power-of-science-compels-you/#comment-37674 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:37:45 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/the-power-of-science-compels-you/#comment-37674 [...] stopwatch on wrist–KMandla’s “Timex Method” (I’ll also give him credit for planting the seed of this post in my head a few months [...]

]]> By: Case in point: A garage jukebox « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/the-power-of-science-compels-you/#comment-36823 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:08:32 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/the-power-of-science-compels-you/#comment-36823 [...] note that bumping the memory from 42Mb to 128 did not improve performance, as I have also suggested on this humble blog. You add-more-memory zealots need to rethink your religion. [...]

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