Do I need more RAM?

Hi

No 2GB is adequate for Vista, yes as in all things more ram is good, but Vista uses ram in a different way to other older Win OSes as in 9x/XP in that it WILL use as much of your ram as possible to do the background tasks, then when you need the ram for an application you start it will hand it back to you.

What you have to concider is what good is having say 1.5GB of free ram and 512MB used, when the free ram is idle doing nothing so is wasted.

I notice you have at that point in screenshot 47% free ram, which is pretty normal usage, you may slim this down a touch by removing any un-needed startup applications and maybe the odd service. A score of 5.1 is good and if your ram is lowest then its likely its not the amount used by the OS, the size of ram 2GB, but the type of ram as in PC6400, PC8500 etc I have PC8500 and its scores 5.6 on its own.

I would say anything over 4-5 as a WEI score is good and will run all you need it too and for a laptop a score of over 5 is superb.

Some info on memory handling
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/magazine/cc162480.aspx

 

HI

Yes Higher the WEI score the better but laptops are generally lower scorers to desktops, SO your laptop is doing very good especially in the GFX area, so highly doubt you will have any issues as all scores are over 5.

To find out info about whats in your PC an the type and speed of memory you can use this app, Everest Free

PC8500 when I bought it over a year and a half ago was expensive but dont think its too bad today as its near a 1/3 of the price I paid for it. But I feel you really dont need to change your RAM out.