Anyway, Mark would have been right if he was talking about using the graphics processor to do computations instead of rendering items to the display fast and writing programs that *explicitly* take advantage of the facility like in CUDA. I am not too convinced that this is what he was referring to when he said " ..... more RAM ..... increase processing capacity ...." Martin. On May 4, 2013 4:20 PM, "Martin Chiteri" <martin.chiteri@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
You actually argued? You have lotsa patience. He probably doesnt appreciate how the pc does what it does.
@Mark,
More ram is in my opinion better than a faster processor when trying to increase processing capacity.
You should be whipped in public using a ten foot fibre optic cable for making the statement above. Since when did main memory storage become interchangeable with a computer CPU clock cycles? You and the (un)respect-able "tech" journalists have no practical differences, you should be seriously ashamed of yourselves. Please hand over your Geek and Skunk cards ..... ;-)
See the Von Neumann architecture to understand the fallacy of your deeply flawed reasoning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture
Martin.
On Friday, 3 May 2013, george wrote:
Really? Does he also think tupac is alive? On May 3, 2013 7:40 PM, "Odhiambo Washington" <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
Ask him a simple question: How does a computer use RAM? If he answers that, then perhaps you'll be excused if you asked him the significance of having more RAM. Also, might he be knowing the need for a swapfile/paging file/virtual memory? Nkt
RAM is a temporary computing space. With multitasking, and larger RAM, several processes get to run and be completed as opposed to having to wait for "limited temporary computing space (low RAM)" to be available so that other processes can run.
How does he define "speed" in computing terms?
If he says more RAM does not help a computer, he should better go back to Abacus. I think it never required RAM:)
He should be stripped of the "techie" tag! I concur.
On 3 May 2013 19:08, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:
So I am having this argument of a lifetime with a respected, local techie journalist:
*His argument:* That increasing the RAM of a computer does not necessarily increase its speed or responsiveness.
*If you add more RAM, the processor speed wont change in any way, you will only have huge jobs stored on the RAM (Because of its large capacity) but the processing time will be the same, hence the computer wont be fast enough as you would expect.*
*My argument* That he is nuts and should be stripped of the respected techie journalist tag. I hold that more RAM will definitely result into some speed improvement.
*The source of the argument:* An Apple MacBook (13-inch, Late 2007)<http://support.apple.com/kb/sp12>, with a 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo <http://ark.intel.com/products/30781>, and currently with 1GB DDR 2 PC2-5300 RAM. The laptop is running Mac OS X 10.5.
Now, he says that upgrading this machine to 4GB is a waste of money, since there will be no change in the speed of the laptop, because, that processor can only handle 1GB, the factory installed RAM.
Can a more learned skunk explain the folly of my/his argument.
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