So, i'm buying a new laptop after christmas. I have my configuration but i'm not sure if i should take 4 or 6gb of ram... I do things in photoshop, play games, multitask and possibly make music some day. I was also planning to livestream some games/photoshop. The price difference is 150€ or 225$ which is quite a bit i think, but i can manage it with a little longer saving. I just want to know if it's worth it. At the moment i'm leaning to 4gb because i havent read much positive things about lots of ram.(it's all out of date though) Here's the rest of the stuff: Screen: 15,6" HD+ (1600 x 900) (+additional 1280x800 monitor) Processor: i7-820QM (4 x 1,73 GHz, 8MB L3 Cache, 45 W, Turbo mode up to 3,06GHz) GCard: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M 1GB HDD: 250GB 2.5" Sata 7200rpm Ram: 4/6GB DDRIII Memory OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
You do most of this stuff now right? So the question is, how much ram do you usually use up as it is when your doing stuff? If your using about 75% of your ram under load, then I say 6 GB doesnt hurt, but you dont need it. If your using more like 90% of you RAM under load, which i doubt, then consider the 6 GB.
4GB will be plenty for a laptop(or even desktop unless you are really pushing it). There's probably no program that will max out 4GB of RAM right now.
Go with the 4GB...but the time you need more, you will either have another laptop, or the price of the ram will be cheaper than the upgrade is now.
Theres probably no a single app, but multiple apps on the other hand, could but even then that pushing it.
Right thanks I never though about checking my memory usage now. I have 3gb now and i'm using less than 60% of it with many things including photoshop, runescape, firefox with 8 tabs, msn, opera with huge page open, avast!, ad-aware and mspaint with a large picture running.. on windows vista with aero vistaglazz theme. I can't seem to push it much further than that (opening new apps use from +1% to nothing more) So i guess 4gb is more than enough ^^;
