RAM Recommendation for UNR 9.04

I am probably going to upgrade to UNR next week. There is a 512 stick on newegg right now for $7.99 with free shipping. Is 1GB plenty for UNR or would i see improvements with 1.5 GB? Thanks.

 

choose 512 Mo. It's more than enough, that heat less and autonomy is better. And choose swap=0

 

Go with 1.5gb, the additional cost is minimal.

It will also keep more data off your swap, which will decrease reads/writes to your disk.

 

More RAM eq higher power consumption eq reduced battery runtime.
Read somewhere in this forum power consumption increased by 2W. Normal idle power consumption is around 10W...

 

My worry isn't power consumption, I can ALWAYS find power somewhere.

 

More memory will never do any harm (except using more power) but a total of 1GB should be absolutely fine.

I am running Jaunty and I currently have Firefox with 5 tabs, Thunderbird, Skype and a couple of xterms and my memory usage is 405MB (excluding buffers).

I installed Ubuntu 8.04 when I got my One before I added more memory and it ran fine on 512MB. I couldn't be positive that I have noticed any performance improvement as a result of adding another 1GB.

Having said all that, memory is cheap and who knows, perhaps one day you may go mad and decide to install Vista in which case you will need that extra 512MB (and a lot more where that came from :lol: ).