Max Memory

vorm · 19 Oct 2007 at 13:51

Just seen on a competitors web site, pre built systems that come with 8Gig of ram but with Vista Home Premium.

Am I misunderstanding something here or is this just a stupid waste of 5gig of ram?

Minstadave · 19 Oct 2007 at 13:54

If its 64bit Vista it is at least usable, not that a home user would ever utilise that much RAM, or even a quarter of it at the moment.

If its 32bit then its a total waste, the OS won't even see over half of the RAM.

vorm · 19 Oct 2007 at 13:56

No mention of it on the spec or options. just seems totally ridiculous to me.

Minstadave · 19 Oct 2007 at 13:58

It is, but people will buy it because it has more memory. Just like cheap video cards with a gig of VRAM. DDR2 is cheap, so bunging loads in a system to increase sales is probably going to work to some degree.