1GB Of RAM Isn’t Enough For Everyone
Netbooks are great, cheap mobile computing platform. When they were first released, they became very popular very quickly, with manufacturers scrambling to fill the new market with cheap, light and appealing products. In order to make them so cheap, manufacturers often cut-back on adding high end hardware components. One of these would be RAM. Most netbooks shipped with no more than 1GB of RAM, while most of them support a maximum of 2 GB of RAM or more, depending on motherboard and chipset configurations.
This 1GB is sufficient for most users who only use their netbook for word processing, email and light web browsing. However, things can begin to slow down when users begin multi-tasking, playing videos, opening multiple browser tabs and such., etc…
My own netbook, the Acer Aspire One D250, only shipped with 1GB of RAM. This was fine until I needed to do some more serious multitasking online. Thus I knew I needed to upgrade and soon!
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