Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-factory] what you can do with KDE3 thatyou can't do with KDE4.

On 02/04/12 17:17, C wrote:
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 09:03, Per Jessen<per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Istvan Gabor wrote:

- KDE4 was slow compared to KDE3, much slower (I have only 0.5-1GB
RAMs in my systems)
I really don't like to counter that with "buy more RAM", but today
desktop systems with 1Gb or less are probably outdated.
Up until recently, I also had a few elderly office systems with only 1Gb
and KDE3, but with a few office documents, office, browser, acrobat
etc, 1Gb for a desktop just isn't efficient any more.
The gotcha there is.. despite the relatively low prices on RAM (You
can easily get 16GB of DDR3 for under 90 Euro), these old systems are
using old RAM that is obsolete.
[pruned]


A simple bump from 1GB to 2 GB seems to make all the difference in the
world with older/slower computers.

I will say what I did about a half-hour ago in another place where a similar statement was made.

You can only add more RAM if your motherboard will accept the additional RAM. You need to check the manual for your mobo to see how much RAM you can install. No use going out and buying 18GB of RAM when your mobo will only accept 2GB.

I mention this because you and I know about this but a newbie who may be reading this will get a knee-trembler and go out and buy all the RAM s/he can afford only to end up with useless sticks of RAM :-) .

BC

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