alright, it's been a while since i posted here.
as you can see in my sig, i have the Prostar 8814, which for all intents and purposes is identical to the Sager 8890. little over 2 yrs old. got it about beginning of Oct. '03.
i orginally ordered it with only 512 MB ram (2x256). and not too long ago upgraded it to 1 GB (2x512).
firstly... when i had ony 512, the system would seem a hair sluggish when mem usage got over 512 (meaning lot of HDD swap)...
so then up to 1 GB... what i notice is, i have a progam with a memory leak (not a whole lot i can do about it, other than reboot every so often, until it's updated)... when my memory reaches about 480 mb usage, and sometimes above 512... it does the same thing... i especially feel it when running Maxthon (it doesn't really have a mem leak, but it is affected by it). after a few hours of being on, Maxthon starts doing a periodical pause... which annoys me to no end when trying to type something (like this post)... a quick restart of Maxthon only solves the issue for about a minute (literally). so ATM, i'm trying out Opera. however, i am currently taking a java class, and the IDE that i am using is JCreator Pro... and wouldn't you know it... that thing likes to pause too while i'm tyring to code... which again, COMPLETELY DRIVES ME BONKERS almost felt like throwing my laptop into the wall, plugs and all. and no, maxthon is NOT running while i code... i can't be bothered to do anything while coding, except listen to some music.
but nonetheless, my system does seem like it still has the 512 limit... self-imposed, apparently.
the 1 GB of ram is not Apacer (that the original 512 was), but it is spec'd with the same speed and timings, from OCZ (best deal i could handle at the time).
as for the rest of my specs, it's a basic 8814/8890. 2.8 P4, 1 GB ram, ati 9600, two 60 GB 7200 rom hdds (upgraded from the original 40 GB 4300 rpm toshiba)... and the internal tv-tuner is in there...
additionally, the tv-tuner seems to like giving me BSODs when i run 2 other programs (most of the time Maxthon being one of them). i would be inclined to blame maxthon, but it isn't always the case. but to be thorough, that's why i'm trying out Opera.
*note i moved this here myself, since i didn't realize i had originally posted in the driver sections.
as you can see in my sig, i have the Prostar 8814, which for all intents and purposes is identical to the Sager 8890. little over 2 yrs old. got it about beginning of Oct. '03.
i orginally ordered it with only 512 MB ram (2x256). and not too long ago upgraded it to 1 GB (2x512).
firstly... when i had ony 512, the system would seem a hair sluggish when mem usage got over 512 (meaning lot of HDD swap)...
so then up to 1 GB... what i notice is, i have a progam with a memory leak (not a whole lot i can do about it, other than reboot every so often, until it's updated)... when my memory reaches about 480 mb usage, and sometimes above 512... it does the same thing... i especially feel it when running Maxthon (it doesn't really have a mem leak, but it is affected by it). after a few hours of being on, Maxthon starts doing a periodical pause... which annoys me to no end when trying to type something (like this post)... a quick restart of Maxthon only solves the issue for about a minute (literally). so ATM, i'm trying out Opera. however, i am currently taking a java class, and the IDE that i am using is JCreator Pro... and wouldn't you know it... that thing likes to pause too while i'm tyring to code... which again, COMPLETELY DRIVES ME BONKERS almost felt like throwing my laptop into the wall, plugs and all. and no, maxthon is NOT running while i code... i can't be bothered to do anything while coding, except listen to some music.
but nonetheless, my system does seem like it still has the 512 limit... self-imposed, apparently.
the 1 GB of ram is not Apacer (that the original 512 was), but it is spec'd with the same speed and timings, from OCZ (best deal i could handle at the time).
as for the rest of my specs, it's a basic 8814/8890. 2.8 P4, 1 GB ram, ati 9600, two 60 GB 7200 rom hdds (upgraded from the original 40 GB 4300 rpm toshiba)... and the internal tv-tuner is in there...
additionally, the tv-tuner seems to like giving me BSODs when i run 2 other programs (most of the time Maxthon being one of them). i would be inclined to blame maxthon, but it isn't always the case. but to be thorough, that's why i'm trying out Opera.
*note i moved this here myself, since i didn't realize i had originally posted in the driver sections.
