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1 year ago

in Why It’s A Perfect Time to Upgrade Your RAM If You Have DDR2 on The Far Side of Tech
If you're using a 32-bit operating system (which most people are), then there's a strong likelihood that 3GB is the most that you can upgrade to.

I recently upgraded to a whole new computer system and discovered that the fourth GB is completely invisible to the system. Doing a little more research revealed that this last gigabyte is where video cards and other BIOS gets mapped in. Even if you have the RAM, these other devices get the first shot at the memory locations in that fourth gig.

The best you can do is get 3.25 or 3.5 GB of usable RAM, but that involves going into your BIOS settings to see if there are any options to move things around.

The solution is to run a 64-bit OS, but that might lead to compatibility issues with some applications.

Read more in this posting "Dude, Where's my 4 Gigabytes of RAM?"

1 year ago

in What the Warner Move to Blu-Ray Means for HD DVD on The Far Side of Tech
HD DVD players can do two simultaneous video streams and offer a picture-in-picture for bonus material content, a feature that's only recently come out on a couple of Blu-ray players, and in a recent firmware update for the PS3. HD DVD players also have interactivity features that will be supported on Blu-ray players later in 2008.

It means that the best Blu-ray player to buy is a PS3 because it's practically infinitely upgradeable, whereas any of the stand-alone Blu-ray players are only upgradeable within some limits. You can read more about these Blu-ray "profiles" in this article on Gizmodo.
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