500 Mhz

I was speaking to a friend last night and he told me that his laptop had 500 Mb of memory and he was very happy with it.  He explained further.

He did not

- Download anything
- Surf the net too much
- Wrote assignments on it
- Used it for light email
- Didn't engage in social media so didn't have any of the apps or other bloatware

And finally he said that it worked nice and fast for what he used it for.  He didn't need any techy tips to improve his PC Speed as basically he treated His machine as an island.

However for the most of us this isn't the case and even for the most cautious you can quickly bloat you memory usage and disk space in a very short time.  I have started using external memory to try and overcome this and I have a self imposed ban on downloading the next great application.  I have also migrated a lot of my work to the web using Google Docs and where possible do not save items locally but put it on the above external storage.

The more naïve user however can go on download sprees and this is to be avoided.  Think first what REAL use you can make of the tool or download before using .  Admittedly there are a lot of useful download but they are hugely outnumbered by a lot of useless crap.  So beware and go to the island.