Kendra opened this issue on Mar 13, 2002 ยท 10 posts
ockham posted Wed, 13 March 2002 at 12:26 PM
Your RAM memory is the crucial factor. RAM matters far more than raw CPU speed or monstrous hard-disk space, because a computer really does much more "organizing" than "figuring". It needs to have a place to put things temporarily while organizing, and if it doesn't have enough (fast) RAM to store things, it will use the (slow) disk instead. You should be able to get by with an 8GB disk, with good housekeeping. (Back up anything that hasn't been used in a while and clear it off the hard disk.) Pack that computer with as much RAM as it will stand; be sure all the little cards are identical in terms of timing and so on.