[linux-audio-user] how much ram?

[Lee Azzarello]

I have one gig. RAM is cheap, might as well throw as much of it at your
system as you can.

-l[e^2]
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On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Atte [ISO-8859-1] André Jensen wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm now 1 small step from getting a laptop for music applications
> (mainly live csound, but also some sequencer (muse?), some soft synths
> (csound/PD), some sample playback + maybe HD-recording.
>
> I'm looking at 2 machines
>
> a)P4 2.4Ghz, 256Mb RAM, 20Gb HD, 1400x1050
> b)P4 2.66Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 40Gb HD, 1024x768
>
> Since I'm comming from AMD K6-300, 256Mb RAM, 8Gb HD, I cannot judge if
> a) is gonna be too small for my use? Every salesperson will tell you
> that you *have* to have 512Mb RAM, since they're assuming you're running
> WinXP, how true is this with linux. I don't see the smaller HD as a big
> problem, although the bigger the better...
>
> Any thoughts are appreciated.
> --
> peace, love & harmony
> Atte
>