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Quick question, i am fairly certain, that i am right in thinking, that the more RAM you have the faster, photo editing programs like lightroom will run?
Now when i do my editing, i like to listen to music at the same time, and my computer is sometimes, quite slow when running Lightroom and Itunes.
I have 1GB of RAM installed, would it be worth installing 2GB, and would it make a noticable difference?
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Ed

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I think another GB of RAM should be noticable during the periods where u have a lot of stuff loaded into the ram. Like maybe 10 pics, and some background programs. And on the bonus site, ram is pretty cheap atm.

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Yeh it is £23.50 for 2GB for my Laptop!

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Given current prices, going to 2 GB as a minimum on primary systems should be done as standard in my opinion Even if all running applications don't need it, the operating system will use any excess as a disk cache which improves general responsiveness.

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Have you checked out ebuyer.com for pricing. I got 2GB of DDR (yeah I know old) a few weeks ago for about £50.

Bear in mind that if you are running 32-bit WindowsXP/Vista you can only use 384MB. So if you get 4MB you won't use all of it.

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Well it is £23.50 for a 2GB kit for my laptop, from crucial!
So i am definately considering it!

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Older ram tends to be more expensive... DDR2 is by far the sweet spot at the moment.

mirageii, 384MB? Think you missed out a digit there. And the practical amount varies depending on the number of hardware devices taking up the memory map...

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Yeh, while ddr2 is the best buy at the moment you have to consider the motherboard its going on other wise you will have no ram at all, ddr, ddr2, and now ddr3 all use different pin setups so they are by no means an interchangeable "option".

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Even when we correct the typo made, that's still not true. The amount of memory accessible by a process (i.e. an application) on a 32 bit Windows platform is 3 GB. That doesn't mean that your 4GB will go to waste. The OS and other programs can still use the 1 GB that your memory hungry application didn't use.

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i agree with the others 2 GB is kinda the minimum now days, its cheap i'd go for it!

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LR can eat up more than 1GB all on it's own so, yes get some more. The more the merrier, especially with RAM.

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Quick note. Only 3 gigs of ram will work on XP. If you want more than 3 gigs, then you need Vista.

And i'm thinking about getting Ram too. I have 1gb atm, and it's sometimes terribly slow

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Actually 4GB of ram won't be fully utilised under 32-bit XP or Vista, if you want to run 4GB of ram or more you'll need a 64-bit version of Xp or Vista.


While 1GB is a bit small it could also be spyware or too many processes slowing you down.

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Yeah I'm gonna get my HDD reformatted soon. As i've said the past 3 months

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I think PodGeorge's assumption is correct. I run Photoshop, QuarkExpress, Itunes, etc. etc both at work and at home. At work I have an IMac with 2GB RAM and my new IMac at home has 4GB. I can tell a big difference in speed between the two. It's most apparent when using Bridge and waiting for all the thumbnails to load (all TIFFS).

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