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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-27-10 05:08 AM
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17. (1) Increasing memory may be a good option, but it depends on the machine: in one
of my old machines, I could increase memory by a factor of 5.0 at a very reasonable price; in another, with a different type of memory, my only options were to increase memory by a factor of 1.5 or 2.0 -- at a cost of thousands of dollars, which wasn't sensible
(2) If your harddrive is nearly full, you may have some slowdown associated with the slower rw times associated with the later disk sectors: you might get some speedup with a larger harddrive: these are generally available at reasonable price
(3) Lots of us think Windows is bloated: if you aren't tied to Windows-specific applications, consider installing a free linux OS like ubuntu or mint instead of Windows
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