Asus Stuffs 12 GB of RAM into Gaming Laptop

[stingwray]

My pc only has 2GB memory running windows xp, I can run photoshop cs3, image ready, Maya 3d, adobe bridge and second life and things will still run smoothly

There's a big difference from being able to run an application "smoothly" and being able to run an application well and fast. Running multiple applications at the same time is hardly a test either, computers are very efficient at paging memory out and in depending on need, you computer might be "running" multiple applications, however you are really only using one of them at a time.

[shonen]

Lastly, second life isn't a game, its a furry sex simulator. Its always run like a dog on every bit of hardware i've seen it on.

I laughed so hard I almost spat coffee on my laptop *claps* Well played Vako!

I personally favor the nick name for that furry sex sim, get a life =P

[Razor512]

Those scary looking numbers you have completely fail to take into account the 7 years between XP's RTM and Vistas RTM. Plus, they are crap. The HD space is largely stuff like caching, page file difference and hibination files, the memory requirements are crap because while XP will kinda run on 64mb of RAM, in practice anything less than 512mb is useless with XP and a 233MHz processor is outpaced by my phone and has been for a few years now. Yes, Vista required a new machine and was not suitable for upgrades, but your mashing the numbers to make them look far worse than they actually are. Get a decent machine made in the last year and Vista will be fine. You remind me so much of the people who claimed XP was a resource hog and they would never use it.

Lastly, second life isn't a game, its a furry sex simulator. Its always run like a dog on every bit of hardware i've seen it on.

i know upgrades tend to require new machines but if you look at many of those other OS before vista, the upgrades added things that every users would use, like support for more cpu cores, support for more memory, and many other enhancements that allow the system to run faster

I have no problem with a new os having higher requirements, i have a problem when a new os has higher requirements but no new hardware support comparable to the old os in terms of performance so the new OS will never outgrow the slowness because the old OS will always run it faster on the same hardware the only way microsoft is getting vista sold is really through pre built systems with special motherboards where they can make them to only have vista drivers so you cant run xp even if you wanted to to see how much faster it is on the same hardware (these are artificially created incompatibilities and not from the new hardware not truly supporting the OS )

(if current hardware on the market was still as it was back in 2000, then you would still have people complaining about xp being slow and a resource hog because the older OS supports the same hardware and benchmarks higher because less resources are wasted on running it's self which leaves more to run the app)

PS those apps all run smooth and fast

I tried it on vista and could not do it, so much as clicking on a object in maya caused the hard drive to crank away for like 20 seconds , just running the OS, SL and sometimes photoshop ate up virtually all of the memory

while with xp i could run all 3 and still have like 100+MB of free memory

and SL isn't that bad, you can make money on SL, and convert the linden dollars into real USD

and only about 5-6 sims are based on furry, i have played for a few years and thats the most i can find,

theres cub conclave, furnation, and rcfm furnation has a cluster of sims other than that, you wont find any other sims dedicated to furry (and due to linden lab rules no porn is allowed on the sims )

(while there some groups dedicated to destroying fur related sims, they eventually stop when they see how easy it is to to sell overpriced products to them instead and make a ton of money)

other than those sims, 99% of the other sims are either stores or sex dungeons and the other 1% are sims created by large companies such as ibm, microsoft and many other companies to advertise their products and also make some linden dollars to convert to real dollars (yep many companies are using SL to make money, especially since 90% of the people on sl are idiots and will have no problem getting ripped off because because they don't understand the conversion rate between linden dollars and US dollars )

SL may run slow for how it looks but on my friends PC, he has a core 2 e6600 and a geforce 8800gt and 2GB memory, he gets 60-70FPS average in second life,

while my system running a radeon 3850 will only get around 5FPS mainly due to ati having bad opengl drivers that refuse to allocate video memory, so I have to remove my 3850 and pop in my geforce 6800, then my frame rates jump to 25-30FPS average more info on the opengl problem here http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm...p;enterthread=y

if you want you can join in on SL, if you are good at building 3d objects, you will make a lot of money on second life (remember most of the people there are idiots and will buy overpriced crap)(one person there who made a small hud mini game is getting like $900 a week from second life by by charging users to constantly get enhancements which allows them to gain points faster, and then the user holds a competition every week where users get together and a score board is setup and everyone battles to get the highest score so who ever spends the most money on the game gets the highest score, and guess what, they gladly waste their money )

if your interested in SL i highly recommend you join and if your good at building or coding then you can make games where you charge users to play or sex objects or furry objects and make some money

remember since it is digital theres no production cost, so each item sold is 100% profit while in the real world if the cost of production was 0, prices would be lower, but in SL it is the opposite