Is 2 GB necesary?

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I was told I had to have 2 GB RAM in order to connect. But when I was in Europe, 1 GB was more than enough. Is there really so much difference or did I get bad advice?
 
Lol, to connect to the internet? No, you don't need 2GB of RAM just to do that.

(Unless you're using Windows Vista. :p )
 
I am not computer illiterate. If I said RAM, I meant RAM.

And good to know, thank you!
 
VIvan said:
I am not computer illiterate. If I said RAM, I meant RAM.

And good to know, thank you!
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You may not be computer illiterate, but illiterate maybe..

If you had said what you wanted to connect to then maybe you would have got some slightly less sarcastic answers..

Instead you just said:

I was told I had to have 2 GB RAM in order to connect
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:erm:
 
The question was actually GB RAM or GB cap. After I said GB RAM. So that was a bit annoying, sorry.

And I mean of course to connect to the internet. I guess there was ambiguity there, but when I hear/read the word 'connect' the internet is the first thing to pop into my head.
 
Hmm I guess it was in the Broadband section..

But still, asking how much RAM is needed to connect to the net is a rather amusing question..for me anyways (no disrespect intended). I guess we all start somewhere though.

There are phones with 50mb of RAM and less that can connect to the net..But it would depend on what OS you are running.

Vista tends to be more RAM hungry than other OS's like XP or Apple's Mac OSX, but Windows 7 seems to keep this under control.

So 2GB of RAM on any commercial OS nowdays is more than enough to connect to the net.

I'm on 1GB on Windows 7 and there's no problem at all (was on Vista before this)

Hope that helps.
 
RAM won't have any impact on the internet connection speed, but it might cause your browser to slow down a bit during rendering of web content due to increased swapping to the hard drive, but even this would be negligible seeing as most web content uses a comparitively minor amount of data.
 
i installed an older pc (in the living room purely for browsing and it has 256mb of ram and switching between tabbed pages and other apps still happen quickly)
 
VIvan said:
I am not computer illiterate. If I said RAM, I meant RAM.

And good to know, thank you!
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If you were computer literate you would know that 1GB of RAM is more than enough to connect to the internet and we wouldn't be having this talk, would we now? :D
 
Garyvdh said:
If you were computer literate you would know that 1GB of RAM is more than enough to connect to the internet and we wouldn't be having this talk, would we now? :D
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Well now, if I took the advice at face value, I would be out buying extra RAM and we wouldn't be having this conversation. :D:D
 
I still have a Toshiba Libretto 100 with 32MB of RAM that connects just fine to the internet....
 
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