On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes you are all correct. Ram cost nothing today, even though it might be > bouncing back to their normal margin. DDR2 Ram are relatively cheap. Not to > mention DDR3 will bring us double or more memory capacity. >
Not likely. Their *normal margins* were because of their collusion. The anti-trust lawsuit, and subsequent multi-billion dollar settlement assured we won't be seeing that again anytime soon. > > Most people could afford 4GB Ram on their Desktop today. With 8GB Ram for > Prosumers. At todays price i reckon ALL systems, even entry level should > have 2GB Ram Standard. And most vista systems do. OEM's slowly learned their lesson. > > > But the sad thing is Windows XP / Vista is still 32Bit. It doesn't > recognize more then 3.x GB of Ram. 64Bit version is still premature and > hardly OEM are adopting it. Hardware makers have yet to full jump on broad > for 64 bit drivers. false, both of them recognize well in excess of 4GB of ram. What they CAN'T do is address it for *ONE* process. That's why applications like oracle were quick to hop on the 64bit bandwagon, they actually need it. I don't know of too many consumer level apps besides maybe photoshop (and firefox ;) ) that come anywhere near 4GB ram usage. > > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
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