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Tuesday 31 October 2006, 3:34 PM

Dell: One gig good, two gig better

Posted by Graeme Wearden

If you thought 1GB of memory was ample for the average personal computer, you can forget it. Now 2GB is the minimum that users should be aiming at.

At least according to Dell chief executive, Kevin Rollins, who told delegates at a conference in Shanghai on Friday: "I think they tell you maybe 1 gig [gigabyte] of memory is okay. No. Two gigs of memory would be great." More over at iTnews in Australia.

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Rupert Goodwins

At the same time as memory prices have almost doubled, because people like Dell have been buying everything in sight ready for Vista.

Odd, that.

R

Posted by Rupert Goodwins on Oct 31, 2006 4:07 PM

modafo

In my opinion, I personally think 1 gig is enough for me... for now. So for the "average personal computer [user]", it should be plenty. Only creative types [such as design, editing video, etc] or gamers need more.

Posted by modafo on Oct 31, 2006 4:41 PM

Chris Beaumont

My Mac has 4 gigs!

Cop that you PC losers! :P

Posted by Chris Beaumont on Oct 31, 2006 6:30 PM

Gareth.Kennett

This seems in-line with the demands of VISTA, 64-bit at-least. VISTA is going to be one hell of a resource beast when its released.

Updated by Gareth.Kennett on Nov 3, 2006 12:20 PM

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