External RAM?

[fable]

My laptop tops out 1.5GB of RAM, but I could sure use a few more gigs, is there a external RAM technology, or an alternate way to get more ram into my laptop other than getting a new one? Ive only a little research, so Im still ignorant. Any links? Advice? Info?

ez

[rawb]

DUDE YOU'RE FUCKED
SORRY

[fable]

Originally Posted by rawb

DUDE YOU'RE FUCKED
SORRY

I had a feeling I was. Shitty.

[rustybob]

If you're running Windows Vista, you can speed things up a bit by allocating up to 2GB of a USB key to be used as cache. I tried it (with a 1GB key), but it wasn't a noticable difference at all. You're more or less SOL

[rawb]

A HUGE SLOWDOWN IS A LAPTOP'S DISK
MAY BE WORTH IT TO ADD A FIREWIRE SECONDARY DRIVE AS YOUR SCRATCH/WORKING DISK

[Phrenetic]

overclock intill its about blow up, it will be good for a few hours untill you hear 2 long beeps come out of it.

true story

[Revolver]

Originally Posted by rawb

A HUGE SLOWDOWN IS A LAPTOP'S DISK
MAY BE WORTH IT TO ADD A FIREWIRE SECONDARY DRIVE AS YOUR SCRATCH/WORKING DISK

what he said.

when i added a lacie ext. hardrive to my g4 powermac things got ALOT faster.

[lildonkey]

Originally Posted by rawb

A HUGE SLOWDOWN IS A LAPTOP'S DISK
MAY BE WORTH IT TO ADD A FIREWIRE SECONDARY DRIVE AS YOUR SCRATCH/WORKING DISK

[fable]

Thx guys!

[ebbomega]

It's called a "hard drive"

Think about it, external RAM would be just plain silly. The whole point of RAM is to have disposible memory available at a very quick speed. So quick, in fact, that it's the fastest thing to talk with the CPU out of any of the peripherals on your computer.

"Virtual Memory" is the next best thing, which is basically when you section off a piece of your hard drive to act _like_ RAM but the information is kept on the hard drive instead. That being said, when you're running off of virtual memory you're going to run a hell of a lot slower, because the time to take information from a hard drive is probably about 10 times the time it takes to pull the information off of RAM.

[Revolver]

Originally Posted by ebbomega

It's called a "hard drive"

.

ha, *hardrive*

[wishbone]

Vista's ReadyBoost comes close.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost

[Goodfellow]

It's alright, you don't really need that much ram to post essays in every thread.

[thebobman]

How Hax Internets 4 Free?!?1

[rawb]

HOW DO I SHOT WEB?

[fable]

Originally Posted by Goodfellow

It's alright, you don't really need that much ram to post essays in every thread.

nice one fucker!

But I do graphic design/flash, and hence some extra RAM would be awesome.

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by Revolver

ha, *hardrive*

whodidwhatnow?

What exactly is a rive and what makes it so hard?