19th
July
2007
More About Memory and 32/64-bits
posted in Technology, Vista, Hardware |The other application I should mention is Media Center with several XBox 360s remoted. Each remote XBox creates a whole new login for Windows with another set of the the Media Center apps + most of the basic system stuff. With the XP 2005 version its only about an extra 100mb for this extra stuff and the base system (for me) is only about 900mb on a non-memory constrained system, so 2gb should be plenty. Of course so far my experience with Vista is that it needs about twice as much memory for everything and I don’t see why this would be an exception- maybe its one of those better safe than sorry things to just get the 2×2gb memory instead of the 2×1gb ones since its only about twice as much ($210 vs about $100).