512MB to 768MB

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 11:18 pm

i found some decent deals for a stick of 512 for my laptop (currently 256-256). is there a respectable gain from this? i'm noticing tons of lag running adobe premiere, and encore dvd working with about 50GB of audio and video

. not sure if it's worth the $40-50us i'd be paying for the memory though.

thx
Jeremy

morbidpete · Post by **morbidpete** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 12:44 am

ehh..didnt notice much inprovment on my machine..just went from 512 to 768 yesturday..programs start up a tad bit faster..and pagefile is a bit smaller..thats really it..but then again..i dotn do anything besides download..e-mail..broswe and Fold

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 6:11 am

I wouldnt bother, but that's just my opinion.

going from 256 to 768 was nice, but I think you're money could be better spent.

you could get a 40gig 5400rpm for about $100 and then purchase an external laptop HD case for about $10.

That's what I use the money for. Those external laptop HD's enclosures are nice, no extra power require so you have REAL freedom!

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 6:27 am

the best improvment for video work that i have found is useing a seperate hard drive for the video files, that way nothing else is accessing the drive and it seems to improve the over all speed somewhat.

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 1:29 pm

ok...it was an auction on ebay so i didn't even bother placing a 2nd bid.

i'm already working with two hard drives...my internal one which is reasonably fast for a notebook drive, and a 120gb drive with all the video. ideally i should have one more, but notebook drives are costly, and external ones are costly too lol.

tom, where can you find a 5400rpm notebook drive that cheap? they're 200cdn aroun dhere.

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 7:09 pm

Jeremy wrote:ok...it was an auction on ebay so i didn't even bother placing a 2nd bid.

i'm already working with two hard drives...my internal one which is reasonably fast for a notebook drive, and a 120gb drive with all the video. ideally i should have one more, but notebook drives are costly, and external ones are costly too lol.

tom, where can you find a 5400rpm notebook drive that cheap? they're 200cdn aroun dhere.

ebay/[h]ardforums

picked up a new 40gig 5400rpm for $100 shipped a while back. I have seen them on [h] a couple of times since then, for about the same price. check [h] everyday and you'll find a good deal on one.

tom