Yes, I just got my office machine's RAM upgraded. So, one of my machine is now,
- 64 bit Architecture
- Dual processor
- both processors Core2 Duo - 1.87 GHz
- 4.0 GB RAM (Previously it was 2 GB)
- Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition.
And good news is, Now machine is running so smooth even after loading my environment fully (where I have following items running almost all the times...
- 2-3 visual studio 2005 IDE
- one Windows XP Virtual Machine running with Visual Studio 2008 (orcas) on it
- IE
- Firefox
- Safari
- [I mostly have all browsers running, i use different browser for different purposes]
- two Remote logon to my other lab machines
- Outlook 2007
- Yahoo Msgr (2 instance)
- Google Talk
- Windows Live Messenger
- Office Communicator
- RegCrawler
- WinPatrol
- Synergy
- Google Desktop
- Windows Desktop Search
- at-least 7-8 windows explorer window
- Office Application (mostly Word)
- JetAudio
- Wakoopa.
I might be missing some applications which I am running but these are almost all mostly used and running application on my machine.
RAM really matters, life is more easier now!
BTW, I already have a lab machine (for one customer case where machine has IA64 architecture with 12 GB RAM, because I have to create AD environment there so, I have four virtual machines running there.. One is primary domain controller and other three client virtual machines.)
Stay tuned.. 