Jordan wrote:Nah. I have 1/2 a gig on my XP laptop and it works pretty well. Not that more speed wouldn't be appreciated--until everything is instantaneous, I want more. But I haven't found adding memory really ever helped, contrary to conventional wisdom. Oh, I'm sure it helps if you have so little that the page-to-disk thingy gets used all the time.even 98 SE will crawl with less > than 512, and if I > were spec'king out an XP box now, I'd say go for at > least 1 Gig. 1G is quite workable for W2K (though maybe not for some who push the envelope with PhotoShop or manipulating video, or heavy users of BIG db), but I'd bet XP wants more.H Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx