re: I hate seeing computers advertised on TV with 512MB of RAM with Vista

Andy Parkes — Thu, 24 May 2007 08:36:53 GMT

I've with you on this. It's one of my pet peeves too.

Thing is it's been going on forever.

Before Vista we saw too many XP machines with 256Mb of RAM. While this runs the OS ok by the time you have loaded anti-virus/anti-spyware (plus what ever rubbish comes pre-loaded!) and the user has Outlook, IE, maybe a word document or a Spreadsheet and a LOB application that 256mb starts to get a little stretched.

Now that i'm able to make the company policy we dont sell any pc to a customer that has less than 512MB for XP (1Gb where preferable) and 1Gb minimum for Vista

re: I hate seeing computers advertised on TV with 512MB of RAM with Vista

Tim Long — Thu, 24 May 2007 01:02:05 GMT

You are so right! I sometimes wonder what planet OEMs are on. PC world has loads of Vista systems with just 512Mb. I am supplying computers with 1Gb as a baseline for an "Office Ready PC" but I was disappointed to discover that my supplier is using motherboards with only 2 DIMM slots and is putting 512Mb in each slot, leaving no room for upgrade.