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Old Jun 25, 2008 | 4:12 pm
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Originally Posted by ClueByFour
I'm curious as to what a laptop would need 8gb of RAM for, that would not be otherwise overly burdened by the nature of laptops to be relatively disk I/O bound?
Anything that uses huge amount of memory.

Furthermore, even if the program is disk based the cacheing of the memory can make a great speedup.
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