Laptop RAM Memory Guide

The fine folks at Notebook Review have put together a Laptop RAM memory guide. They say:

RAM (Random Access Memory) has been widely regarded as the cheapest, easiest way to improve computer performance for the past decade at least. It’s one of the three main components responsible for your system’s day-to-day performance, alongside the CPU and the oft-forgotten hard disk, and too little of it can be a serious bottleneck.

The guide goes onto to discuss the different types of memory along with a discussion of how much memory is sufficient:

512MB: This should be the bare minimum. If you’re running a Windows XP laptop on any less than that, go out right now and buy another memory stick. You’ll notice a huge improvement in overall performance.

1GB: A gig of RAM is slowly becoming a standard. If you multi-task or do any sort of intenstive graphics work, you should be packing some serious RAM power in that laptop.

Finally, the guide recommends that you don’t go for the cheap OEM RAM. Shell out the few extra bucks for an established stick of RAM from a quality supplier like Crucial.