Re: Win10 low RAM
philo <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.hardware |
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On 11/5/21 4:00 PM, Heron wrote: > On 11/5/2021 3:13 PM, philo wrote: >> I have a friend with an almost unusable laptop running Win10 64 bit. >> The machine cannot accept more than 4 gigs of RAM. >> >> >> From my experimenting with other low end machines, I've found that 3 >> megs of RAM and Win10 32 bit gives much better performance than >> Win10_64 and 4 gigs of RAM> >> >> I've been thinking of reloading the OS, but wonder if I'd be better >> off just cloning to a SSD? >> >> >> Yes, they will get a new machine one of these days bit for now, their >> smartphone is sufficient. > > Many laptops that were originally limited to 4gb ram later > had bios updates that increased that capacity. I'd consider > W7 for it. It originally had Win7 but I want the person to have a machine that still gets updates.