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[Osmose]

Oh, and also, do NOT get two 512 sticks of RAM if you're going for 1 GB or higher - you can get a single stick of a gig of ram for the same price, and you won't be stuck having to buy more RAM then you need if you want to go above 2 gigs. (Although the only reason I want more is for when I'm editing huge image files, like book covers, and Fireworks won't go as big as I need it to be.)

[DragonBlaze]

Originally posted by Osmose
Oh, and also, do NOT get two 512 sticks of RAM if you're going for 1 GB or higher - you can get a single stick of a gig of ram for the same price, and you won't be stuck having to buy more RAM then you need if you want to go above 2 gigs. (Although the only reason I want more is for when I'm editing huge image files, like book covers, and Fireworks won't go as big as I need it to be.)

Well if you plan to upgrade in the future, just one big stick would probably be best. Otherwise if you don't plan to upgrade, two 512 sticks would be safer. If you have two of them, one can break or something and you could still run the computer on just one of them, and replacing the broken one wouldn't cost that much where as if you had just one big stick, if it breaks, you can't really use your computer until you get a new one, and it'll cost more to replace.

My old laptop had two RAM chips that together had 512 RAM. And one of my chips broke on that, since I had the other one, I was still able to run it. I never bothred to replace the stick though because a bunch of other things were going on my laptop and i figured it wouldn't pay to replace it.