Is it possible? On a netbook?

Hi.

1 GB is plenty and well more than you think. The netbook will run lovely with it even for video encoding and games (as best the gpu can handle at least)....meaning if you put 2, you will not feel or experience much of a difference.

Unless you truly like to have a million things open a time. Then that may be a little different.

If a notebook is currently not being used to "full potential", then 2 GB over 1 GB in a netbook will not offer you any benefit whatsoever. Save your money.

I've had a few netbooks and currently have a 10.1" Asus 1000H which has been modded regards larger storage and 2Gb of memory (the latter made an enormous difference when attempting anything demanding in video/audio conversion, and impacted very positively on synchronisation procedures...) and I have thrown Windows7 Home Premium onto it for curiosity - with complete success.

As I said, it was done out of curiosity as I actually need to maintain XP on that machine due to external working considerations. Accordingly I made a clone of my Windows7 installation, but ultimately reinstalled XP using a cloned partition image.

Bearing in mind this is an N270 Atom machine, the W7 experience was surprisingly good, certainly better than anticipated, so I would not allow yourself to be put off from attempting a similar installation.

The largest hurdle is getting every inbuilt device recognised and compatible drivers installed, but even this doesn't take very long or challenge your skills too highly.

I have 7 on my asus netbook. Same Atom processors. Runs like a champ with 2 gigs. Don't know how it runs with 1 gig as I ordered the extra gig the same day ($30 bucks, why wouldn't you?).

Only thing that is sluggish is flash play.

Qdos said:

I've had a few netbooks and currently have a 10.1" Asus 1000H which has been modded regards larger storage and 2Gb of memory (the latter made an enormous difference when attempting anything demanding in video/audio conversion, and impacted very positively on synchronisation procedures...) and I have thrown Windows7 Home Premium onto it for curiosity - with complete success.

As I said, it was done out of curiosity as I actually need to maintain XP on that machine due to external working considerations. Accordingly I made a clone of my Windows7 installation, but ultimately reinstalled XP using a cloned partition image.

Bearing in mind this is an N270 Atom machine, the W7 experience was surprisingly good, certainly better than anticipated, so I would not allow yourself to be put off from attempting a similar installation.

The largest hurdle is getting every inbuilt device recognised and compatible drivers installed, but even this doesn't take very long or challenge your skills too highly.

Benchmarks please?

I recently went from 1GB normal RAM to 2GB performance RAM and noticed absolutely no change in anything whatsoever except a nice meter with more space.

You want me to reload Windows7, just to provide you with benchmarks?

My earlier post makes it clear I habitually run XP on the netbook in question... and that I only loaded W7 out of pure curiosity.

Why don't you go about convincing posters that 2Gb doesn't do anything more than 1Gb instead? As illogical as it sounds I'd say 1Gb is the sweet-spot for XP, however that would not be my opinion under W7 due to the differing memory architecture, and randomisation in addressing memory (to provide enhanced security against hackers).

The reason I went back to XP was because some applications which act interactively with my employers mainframe won't work under Vista or W7, otherwise I would have left it on.

One word of warning however. Battery life plunged under W7, by about 25%. Also I forgot to mention the native WiFi card wouldn't work, and I had to fit a more recent and higher spec' Intel card.

Anyone with an Asus netbook can find out far more here.

A netbook is a laptop, it's just downsized and usually has no optical drive. Other than that the processor is usually an Atom 1.6Ghz, so you are never going to get the raw power of a dual-core notebook.

These restrictions aside you are not limited in any way as to how you use W7 HP and will be able to run anything the processor can handle, albeit all a little more slowly as compared to higher spec hardware