Just upgraded the RAM in my Alienware Mx15, was 4GB now has 8GB of Kingston HyperX (PriceSpyNZ). This is because, a few times I had two VM's open and without thinking opened a third one....my system would then stop. All available RAM was used, so all processes were being swapped with the HDD.
Needless to say, but will anyway, if you are swapping all operations with the HDD even keyboard inputs are very very slow. In this situation I would just power down the laptop and restart, usually losing a little bit of work in the process.
More RAM doesn't make the computer faster....but it does stop it slowing down. I tested it yesterday with 6 VM's open, worked a treat. No noticeable slow down.
I was also testing Ubuntu 12.04 to see if it will be fit my usage. Installed Gnome Shell, Gnome classic looks pretty much like Gnome 2.x. Though in my brief testing I didn't find the setting to change the panels.
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