Laptop Memory

Memory Myths.

There is a very interesting observation made by one of these memory improvement guys who sell their books on the Television. He claims everybody has a good memory but we just fail to recognize it and utilize it the proper way. Sorry Sir, I am very much aware how much my memory is (its weak) and I know how to use it (I keep blaming it for all my faults).

The Laptop however has no such choices like me and is required to utilize the available memory for running all the applications. The Laptop memory issues are resolved internally and appropriate memory is allotted to the application depending upon its priority. The memory here implies the RAM which comes in the form of PCB mounded chips that can hold data for a short duration and transfer it at a very fast rate for necessary operations. This is totally different from the Hard disk which is a permanent storage/ memory space.

The Race For More. The memory hunger of Laptops has been never ending. The memories have increased manifold and starting from a modest 32 Kb the RAM now boasts of speeds in the vicinity of 16Gb. One remembers the 1980s Bill Gates comment regarding RAM, when he said "Who needs more than 64 Kb of RAM Anyway?" Eat your heart out Mr. Gates, your creation has clearly overtaken your own imaginations. The Laptop memory today is increasing at a fast pace to accommodate the advance computing softwares that are being flooded into the market everyday.

Laptop RAMs.

Any average Laptop user would tell you that a Laptop RAM of 1Gb would be good enough to run almost all the applications including the 3-D Graphics and multimedia applications. However, it is increasingly common to observe people demanding more RAM from the vendors with a preconceived notion that the higher the RAM the faster a Laptop would be. This notion though not wrong is not entirely correct. The RAM is faster than the main storage memory, however, it is still much slower than the processor and requires something called a cache to come on equal footing with the processor. Therefore, more RAM does not necessarily mean faster and more efficient Laptop.

The Tradeoff.

The ideal configuration of a Laptop would decide the optimum amount of RAM that can utilise all the existing resources of the Laptop. Thus the requirement of a Laptop memory would indeed depend upon the user requirement of running applications on the Laptop. Thus, a gaming Laptop would have a totally different requirement of Laptop RAM vis-…-vis a Laptop used entirely for Office work or say multimedia.

The additional data that the multimedia content device loads on a Laptop while running generally slows down the machine for a short span of time. It may even hang it for some time. However, even with a higher capacity RAM the effect wont change since the Graphic accelerator may be slow. The case may be different for different accessories. However, the fact about Laptop Memory that it can speed up the Laptop only upto a certain extent holds good.

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