How much memory?
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Storage or Hard disk drive (HDD) isn't memory, Memory is RAM (random access memory) and you won't need no more than 8gb. Even that is a bit much in my opinion for what you need, you would be fine with 4gb of RAM.
Whereas HDD means Hard disk drive, how much space your computer has, for your preference I would recommend around 250-500gb as word files are small, usually. For your needs 500GB is plenty and he is wrong about 64gb of storage, for cheap you can get 500gb or 250gb and you save money as you won't need an external HDD.
Hope I helped, sorry if it's a little confusing, just needed to clear that up in case you have a similar problem in the future and reference a HDD as memory and get inaccurate answers.
Whereas HDD means Hard disk drive, how much space your computer has, for your preference I would recommend around 250-500gb as word files are small, usually. For your needs 500GB is plenty and he is wrong about 64gb of storage, for cheap you can get 500gb or 250gb and you save money as you won't need an external HDD.
Hope I helped, sorry if it's a little confusing, just needed to clear that up in case you have a similar problem in the future and reference a HDD as memory and get inaccurate answers.
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unless you are doing massive video and image editing with something like Photoshop, there is absolutely no need for more than 8GB RAM. 1TB (terabyte) of hard disk space (external memory as you say) will still take a while to fill even if you down load a lot of HD movies. With just music and photos, it'll take a very long time. eg. it'll hold over 200 HD movies, 50 thousand music tracks and 250 thousand photos.
As you are a writer, look at the file size of your largest document in MB (mega bytes). Divide 1000000 by the file size, to see how many of those documents will fit on the HDD.
As you are a writer, look at the file size of your largest document in MB (mega bytes). Divide 1000000 by the file size, to see how many of those documents will fit on the HDD.
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ok, 4-8gb is plenty for writting, and 1tb is a lot of storage anymore than that can get really expensive
anymore than that can get really expensiveStorage or Hard disk drive (HDD) isn't memory, Memory is RAM (random access memory) and you won't need no more than 8gb. Even that is a bit much in my opinion for what you need, you would be fine with 4gb of RAM.
Whereas HDD means Hard disk drive, how much space your computer has, for your preference I would recommend around 250-500gb as word files are small, usually. For your needs 500GB is plenty and he is wrong about 64gb of storage, for cheap you can get 500gb or 250gb and you save money as you won't need an external HDD.
Hope I helped, sorry if it's a little confusing, just needed to clear that up in case you have a similar problem in the future and reference a HDD as memory and get inaccurate answers.
Whereas HDD means Hard disk drive, how much space your computer has, for your preference I would recommend around 250-500gb as word files are small, usually. For your needs 500GB is plenty and he is wrong about 64gb of storage, for cheap you can get 500gb or 250gb and you save money as you won't need an external HDD.
Hope I helped, sorry if it's a little confusing, just needed to clear that up in case you have a similar problem in the future and reference a HDD as memory and get inaccurate answers.
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There is 3 types of memory that you'll see mainly. RAM is the memory that the computer uses to run and usually amounts to 4-32 Gigabytes (GB) with 6-8GB being good for a laptop. The other memory is storage memory, what you'll use to store files and where all the programs from Windows to your writings are. Of these there are 2 types. Internal and External. Internal is memory that is actually inside the computer, either on a flash memory(SSD) or Hard drive(HDD). This is where windows is kept, it being needed inside inorder to boot up. External is an outside source of extra memory that will plug into the laptop, either an external HDD or something like a SD card or USB flash drive. 1 Terabyte (1TB) is pretty good sized and will take a while to fill, even with lots of music, photo's or written files.
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its how I explained it to my wife. she got the idea. While technically a HDD isn't memory, I don't think of it being necessarily a bad way of explaining it to someone like my wife who is computer illiterate and who could care less about technicallities
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8GB ram on laptop is about the norm. Some on special here at futureshop come with 12GB RAM.
500GB Hard drive is plenty for most people. Especially a writer 500GB hard drive is a lot.
500GB Hard drive is plenty for most people. Especially a writer 500GB hard drive is a lot.
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