3GB or 4GB - will I notice the difference?

JQ.

I'm going to purchase a new laptop this evening. It's probably narrowed down to a Dell Inspiron 15R (although it seems to change by the hour). The specs are :

Intel i-3 processor
320gb hard drive
running 64 bit windows 7


However, it comes with 2 different levels of RAM 3GB or 4GB, with the price difference being £400 against £445. Will having the extra 1GB of RAM make a noticeable difference to the operation of the machine, and it it worth paying 10% extra for?

The laptop is used for surfing, photo storage, itunes storage, video storage, ripping DVD's etc - nothing too complicated, but ripping DVD's on our curent machine takes an age. I'd like to get the best I can for our budget at the time and pay the extra if it's worth it, but don't want to chuck £45 down the drain if there's no real world benefit for our simplistic use of the laptop.

Cheers

JQ

aliEnRIK

You wouldnt notice any difference

leanneloves

Maybe with video work you will notice.

[Deleted User]

You'll see more benefit in processing video with either a better CPU/GPU/SSD than you will by adding more memory.

JQ.

I'm not going to be doing any video editing, just storing small amounts or ripping DVD's, so it sounds like th 3GB is all I need.

mongoose2009

32bit OS only recognise 4Gb and it has overheads so you would only see 3.25GB anyway

Esqui

I don't think you'll notice any difference at all.

davester

mongoose2009 wrote: »

32bit OS only recognise 4Gb and it has overheads so you would only see 3.25GB anyway

The Laptop in question comes with 64Bit so will be able to go over 4GB if you really need too

JQ.

cheers all, looks like we'll be saving ourself £45, every penny counts!

spakkker

http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/15273078/Kingston-KVR1333D3S9-2G-2GB-1333MHz-DDR3-204-pin-SODIMM-Laptop-Notebook-Memory/Product.html?_%24ja=tsid:11518%7Ccat:15273078%7Cprd:15273078 - £17

beanys

alway go for as much ram as you can , maybe at the moment you will not think you need it but in 6 months as programs get more memory hungry you will be glad you had 4gb also it will make the computer faster and smoother and you will be able to have more programs open at once