I’m going to college soon and I’m going to buy a laptop. There’s a sale on a new Sony laptop that I really like. The sales person says I should upgrade the ram to 3 gigs since its running Vista but the laptop I want to buy comes with only 2 gig of ram. I won’t be doing any gaming, just basic school stuff so how much ram should I get?
I have a laptop that runs Vista with 1 gig and it does a pretty good job although its not the fastest laptop it does what I need it to do. I also have a desktop that’s able to run Vista on 1 gig of ram. Although I use 1 gigs on my machines I usually recommend at least 2 gig of ram to run Vista efficiently.
If you ever want to do photo editing with programs like Photoshop which likes a lot of memory or video editing, video transcoding or even gaming then 3 or even 4 gigs would really be worth the money but it doesn’t sound like you do anything to intensive so 2 gigs of ram will do just fine. You can always upgrade ram later if you need to, upgrading ram is a relatively easy and cheap thing to do.