Does more memory make laptop faster?

Rooky007 · 4 Feb 2007 at 21:59

At the moment My laptop which is a 1.73ghz intel centrino with 512 mb of memory. I have found it been very sluggish ever since i have installed office 2003. Also boot up is not as quick as normal so am wondering if i upgraded memory I would see a different? If not I may buy a apple macbook as i been thinking about it for a couple of weeks now but would still like to try and get my sony laptop tip tops

squiffy · 4 Feb 2007 at 22:06

1GB does improve performance, especially on laptops where the hard drives are slower than desktop drives.

What's your peak memory usage?

Rooky007 · 4 Feb 2007 at 22:18

squiffy said:
1GB does improve performance, especially on laptops where the hard drives are slower than desktop drives.

What's your peak memory usage?

Sorry to sound like a noob but is that PF Usage? if so it goes from 398 to 400 mb and that is a fresh start

Steves_pc · 5 Feb 2007 at 01:41

Sounds about right for office 2003.

Always find on system builds/reloads things are great till that goes on then it's
s l o w d o w n time :rolleyes:

typical microshite imho, i mean look at fsx (bloatware!).
best suggestion i've got is try some windows tweaks/progs - bootvis can improve boot times by kinda defragging the files used during startup, startupCPL helps you get rid of un-needed stuff from the startup, or a proggy called pc booster to name one of several that are about.

jas72 · 6 Feb 2007 at 09:34

thanks steve

I just bought a toshiba (very cheap laptop for internet useage only and the bottom right hand corner takes up half the screen and takes minutes to load.

I'm sure it tosh bloat but didn't know how to remove it successfully I used win.ini file and google to see whats what but even google doesn't find all the apps that are running I'll try some of these other proggies.

OC_A64 · 6 Feb 2007 at 11:48

Just nuke stuff via add/remove programs. Or kill 'em via msconfig. Least that way you can see if you _actually_ need them.
1GB does help out a lot, you'll probably be loosing some main memory to gfx too (assuming its not dedicated) so might be worth dropping the allocation if you're able to.

squiffy · 6 Feb 2007 at 11:53

Rookies said:
Sorry to sound like a noob but is that PF Usage? if so it goes from 398 to 400 mb and that is a fresh start

Peak memory usage is total. If peak is higher than physical memory than it starts to swap. ie on my computer I have 1GB of RAM, but I've yet to go above that with the usual applications loaded, the maximum peak usage is 750MB. I have a 512MB desktop so at that point on that machine it will swap.