| 8GB of Memory |
| Thursday, February 12 2009 |
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After much procrastination I finally ordered 8GB of memory for my desktop, which was dutifully delivered yesterday. If I could’ve gotten my headache to go away last night I would have installed the memory then, but it didn’t work out that way so I had to wait until this morning. But it was definitely worth the wait:
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Much like the jump from 2GB to 4GB, the increase from 4GB to 8GB of memory is very noticeable, and is a huge boost when running more than one virtual machine at a time.
This probably goes without saying, but with memory prices being ridiculously low, I suggest buying as much memory as your machine can hold. My desktop is now maxed out with the 8GB, and it only set me back about $100. That’s right, $100 for 8GB of memory. Like I said, ridiculous.
Update: This also probably goes without saying, but remember that you need a 64-bit operating system to be able to *use* more than 3.2GB of memory (or is it 3.5GB, I can’t remember). You can install more than that, but it will be ignored if you’re running a 32-bit operating system.
