Re: low overhead av/win?

Jobst Schmalenbach <[email protected]> Mon, 6 Aug 2012 11:11:44 +1000
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Considering that the standard OS already uses about 500MB the system will be swapping like mad with *ANY* application running.

Considering that RAM costs about $30 for 2GB and considering the above this is a no brainer, really.

J



On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 04:20:14PM +1000, [email protected] ([email protected]) wrote:
> On Sat, August 4, 2012 10:04 am, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> > Security Essentials from Microsoft. Can't be beat for the price - free.
> 
> thanks, I totally  forgot that option.
> 
> > But you should really increase your ram, that would make a huge
> > difference.
> 
> yes, the only thing, cost of time+materials for doing RAM u/g versus cost
> of brand new system, I'm not sure it stacks up.
> 
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