First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good

[Ian Stephen]

Not exactly a Linux question, but I am going to be building a few
low-budget Linux PC's for the family so...

Is one brand of ram as good as the next or does it make a difference
whose ram one buys?

Thanks,
Ian Stephen


On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 16:29, Joel Hammer wrote:
> 
> I up'ed the memory from 125 megs to 256megs by adding some memory from
> a computer I am throwing out. Surprising to me, it really peps the
> machine up.
> 
> So, its worth the $44 bucks or whatever they are charging at your local
> CompuUSA. I think they charge more than that if you buy it preconfiged
> with additional memory.
> 
> Here is the output of free. So, it looks like the extra memory is
> being used. (32 megs is used for video memoryh.)
> 
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:        224484     220092       4392          0      35208     105460
> -/+ buffers/cache:      79424     145060
> Swap:       864500       1356     863144
> 
> 
> Joel