2008/12/29 Llanos <llanosnu...@gmail.com>: > Laptops for home use are getting higher and higher hardware specs as people > think that they need it. Also the fact that Vista needs minimum 1 ram of > memory to run fine has made the computer´s companies go higher and higher.
Indeed. I bought a lappy with four gigs on it, and 2 GHz dual core, my reasoning being that I would be able to use it for number-crunching. And I do. It's great fun to be able to manipulate several gargantuan matrices in memory and not have to swap. But other than that, I haven't gotten even close (say, 50%) of ever using all of my lappy's memory. Not even when I open a ton of apps. Not even when I'm transcoding video. If the price difference is significant, I say you go for the laptop with the smaller RAM size. Oh, and since you're shopping, you're also in a good position to choose the hardware that has free drivers. I personally love intel graphics chipsets, for example. Keep this in mind. I've had a really good experience with a Dellbuntu laptop, which only needs a firmware blob for the wireless, but everything else works wonderfully. - Jordi G. H.
