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phoenix39
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40 GB? 256 MB RAM? What language is that?  Is that Latin or French? LOL. 
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| phoenix39 wrote: | | 40 GB? 256 MB RAM? What language is that? Is that Latin or French? LOL. |
In case you weren't kidding. It is Korean. Have Sun translate it for you. JK.
If you want to find your own specs and Sun is not available to translate because she's LOST you can find your own if you do the following:
Go to START at your taskbar then choose "Run"
Type "dxdiag" (no quotes)
Press "OK"
and you will see something that looks like the top half of the pic below.
To find your system hard drive capacity go to "My Computer" and you will see the lower half of the pic below the thick double red lines.
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phoenix39
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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Hey, thanks so much!
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phoenix39
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Okay, I have a 222 MB RAM and on my hard drive, I have a total space of 55.8 GB, and free space of 49.8 GB. Is that good?
But that's my laptop. I'm scared to look on my family computer, which has 8 episodes of LOST, all my videos, and lots of junk on it. I'm scared!
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The amount of free space is good at almost 90%.
The amount of RAM which has to be 256 MB and is just reading as 222 MB is not so good. This is the bare minimum to run WinXP. So any other programs have to tip toe thru the windows. Something like a video editor on such a tight memory resource will take a while to render the video. Desktops tend to have more ram and are much more friendly to adding RAM memory.
To explain this to you as an automotive analogy. RAM is like the cylinders in a car and hard drive space is like the passenger and cargo compartments. When you run a video editor it is like going up a hill. The more cylinders you have the easier it is to get to the top (or to finish a vid). The more passenger room you have the more clips and eps you can store. There is another factor which is the CPU or the real Brain of your PC that is like the engine of a car. You can find your specs in that DXDIAG window if you look for the word "Processor." Mine is a fairly low end as a Pentium 4 @ 2.0 Gigahertz. The higher the number the better your PC is able to "crunch numbers" or process stuff you want it to do like vid clips, games... |
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phoenix39
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Okay, thanks so much for breaking that into laymen's terms for me. Much appriciated (sp?)! 
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