Important Computer Question

[Magical Girl Mimi]

This should probably go somewhere else, but I'm not really up for tracking down which board in particular this should go in, and I figure it'll get attention here.

Anyway, my question is kinda like a survey to everyone... How much RAM do you guys all have for your computers? Like; what can everyone's computers support? Does anyone use a phone to connect, or some fail browser that can only support similarly fail stuff? I'm intrigued, and mostly wondering if anyone else has a fail computer like me. =P

[mtmerrick]

For me, internet is pretty equally split between phone, laptop, and tablet.


Laptop:
First Gen mobile i3, only Intel's integrated graphics, no dedicated gpu. 4 gb of ram, out of a possible 8, and a HDD, not an SSD
Windows 7 home premium 4, chrome beta.
75% of the time I'm connected via my home wifi N (14 meg down, 2 meg up)
20% of the time I'm connected via my work's wifi N (better numbers but lower speed than home)
5%   of the time I'm connected via my phone's wireless tether (Verizon LTE, at home is 11 meg down, 7 meg up)


Tablet:
Tegra 2 SoC, 1gb ram, 16 gb SSD.
Android 4.0.3, ICSBrowser+

70% home wifi N
15% work wifi N
15% LTE phone tether


Phone:
Cortex A8 Hummingbird SoC, 512 mb ram, 2 gb SSD
Android 2.3.6, Dolphin HD browser.

90% Verizon LTE
10% various WIFI

[Canama]

More than you.

Okay, seriously, it's 4 GB. Unless you're doing some really resource-intensive stuff you probably shouldn't need more than that.

For some reason, when I boot into Windows XP it will only let me use (for lack of a better word) 3 GB of RAM. That's still enough memory for gaming.

-Canama

[mtmerrick]

For some reason, when I boot into Windows XP it will only let me use (for lack of a better word) 3 GB of RAM. That's still enough memory for gaming.

light to medium gaming anyways. Not enough to even run skyrim properly.
And that's because windows powered 32 bit computers can only recognise about 3.5 gb ram. Its a windows and CPU shortcoming, not your computer's fault

[Jade]

8GB of RAM, most I've ever used is 5.

[Canama]

For some reason, when I boot into Windows XP it will only let me use (for lack of a better word) 3 GB of RAM. That's still enough memory for gaming.

light to medium gaming anyways. Not enough to even run skyrim properly.
And that's because windows powered 32 bit computers can only recognise about 3.5 gb ram. Its a windows and CPU shortcoming, not your computer's fault

It should be able to run Skyrim.

Not well, sure, but functionally.

-Canama

[mtmerrick]

well, depends. what CPU/ GPU do you have?

[Canama]

CPU passes, GPU should pass, but right now I can't run anything anyways as my video card's drivers are messed up for reasons I don't feel like elaborating on. (But I'm fixing it, hopefully!)

EDIT: Okay, here's the sob story:

I was updating my Boot Camp driver because of an annoying issue with it that had ruined my gaming experience for the last time. Partway through the update a dialogue box pops up that read, paraphrased, "el oh el guise we deleted your video drivers".

Fortunately reinstalling them isn't hard.

-Canama

[The Truth]

6 GB of RAM.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

More than you.

Also, looks like MTM's phone is currently the odd one out. Quick question there, how does it do handling web pages? Does it take a long time to load them?

[mtmerrick]

honestly, probably better than your desktop

my tablet both presents a mostly loaded and fully functional webpage within 2 seconds, and a fully loaded page (including flash objects) within 5 seconds, unless the page is REALLY bloated or flash-heavy.

phone is about a second and a half slower. still, i can load 90% of websites 100% within, about, say 6.5 seconds on my phone.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

honestly, probably better than your desktop

Hmm. How does it handle stuff like image backgrounds?(Even if it's just like small tiles to simulate some massive background) Just wondering, since admittedly my current computer doesn't handle that very well, and tends to slow down.

[mtmerrick]

see above, those numbers still apply.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Alright, so it can handle background images then.

What do you mean by bloated, though?

[mtmerrick]

things that take a long time to load or may not work properly

-got to cnet.com and click "load more content" at the bottom more than 4 times
-wikia's rich text editor
-anything that overuses plugins, or excessive HTML5
-full, desktop version of the gmail website
-web version of google anylitics
-non-youtue, non-flash videos
-My Lego Network


that's all i can think of off the top of my head

[Magical Girl Mimi]

*Nods* Okay then, fair enough. HTML5's definitely out anyway, given that the software's outdated and all...

So, stuff that has a lot of images wouldn't necessarily be bad?

[mtmerrick]

its fine. might take up to 1/3 of a second longer if they're larger image files but won't make much of a difference.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Alright then.

So, nothing's as bad as the 3DS browser, then? =P

[mtmerrick]

considering the system specs on that thing, i'd definetly agree with you

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Actually, I don't think it's the 3DS's fault, as much as the browser itself fails, and even if it didn't, it's only allowed like 1/8th of the actual specs. xD

If it had an actual dedicated browser, that wasn't intended at all for multi-tasking, it could probably handle it much better than the current one.