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Thinking of buying a top-of-the-range Windows Vista PC with loads of Ram? Then just be sure that “loads” is no more than 3GB: you could be throwing away anything from £50 upwards.

Buy a PC with 4GB of Ram, and you can wave goodbye the last gigabyte. The reason is the memory-mapped input-output (MMIO) method – the system by which PCs communicate with installed devices, such as graphics cards.

If you want the 4GB you should be looking at Vista 64bit edition or XP 64bit edition but do check your applications suitability for the 64bit platform. Should we not be saying to customers this more? I have to confess I hadn’t thought about it.

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