Computer Memory - How much is good enough ?

Now a days, laptops are shrinking in size, on popular demand from the mobile, laptop lugging crowd. There are a slew of 10" laptop models available in the market from various manufacturers like Samsung, Acer, HP and so on.

I have found that most of these laptops which, by popular parlance are known as netbooks or mini notebooks, come with 1 GB of memory. And they are mostly powered by an energy efficient Intel Atom processor. Read more »