| When purchasing any modern computer (Windows or Apple) the cheapest performance upgrade you can get is more RAM. I strongly encourage installing the maximum your operating system can use -- right now the "sweet spot" for Windows XP seems to be 2GB. Most notebooks only "come with" 512MB or 1GB, but pay for the upgrade. My wife and I have computers with similar CPUs, but her's has a very high end mobile graphics card and 2GB of RAM. It's noticeably faster than mine in every way, and runs the kids' favorite games, too (which is a bad thing to me, but we bought the high-end graphics card for digital movie editing and now the boys fight over mom's computer). |