On 15/01/2021 21:55, Harry Bloomfield wrote:

Acer ES1-521 with 8Gb RAM, AMD A6-6310 CPU, Radeon R4 Graphics1Tb HDD.
It seems to have one memory slot occupied, one empty. Running Win10 64bit.

For most "office" style applications at the moment, 8GB ought to be
adequate. You may want more if doing lots of photoshop etc. You can
check by opening task manager when you have open a "typical" set of
applications, and clicking on the Performance tab, and then the "Memory"
entry on the left. Look at the "Committed" amount at the bottom of the
window. If that is less than the physical ram, then there will be no
particular gain in having more.

(The big performance gain would come from swapping the HDD for a SSD -
that can make even fairly basic laptops "feel" very much more responsive).


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Cheers,

John.

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