Re: Computers - growth in drives but not memory

Scott en Aztlán <scottenaztlan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Richard Fangnail <richardfangnail@xxxxxxxxxx> said in misc.consumers:

Every year computers have more harddisk space but not that much more
memory. I just saw an ad for a computer with 160G drive but 512M
memory. Compared with three years ago, that drive is way bigger but
the memory is about the same.

Why is the disk size growing more than memory?

I just bought a new computer about a month ago. It came with 2GB of
RAM and 640GB of disk. 32-bit Intel CPUs can only address 4GB of RAM
total, and 2GB of that theoretical total is usually reserved for
Windows. Thus, there's not much point in putting more than 2GB of RAM
into a typical Pentium-based Windows PC, whereas you can *always* use
more disk space.

Nope, those who dont do digital photos and videos cant.

Yes, there are some exceptions, but applications have
to be specially written to make use of the additional RAM.

Thats wrong too.

http://www.winhlp.com/WxMoreThan2GB.htm


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