I'm running sweet with 2 gig of ram, 3800x2 duel core AMD, XP sp2. Had this couple of years now I think.
Looking at getting a big external hard drive to back everything up to.
But I do know this. If you have all your programs running on C Drive say. You back that up to an external. Then pull that C drive out and shove a new one in with the back up on it, it doesn't work anyway. I know as I have tried it.
I have all my programs on C drive, all my files on D drive.
I have found if you load a program to D drive which doesn't have the operating system then it doesn't work as good and sometimes at all.
Programs are best loaded to the drive with the operating system on it.
I have very few issues, however can say that with the plethora of flash, websites that are embedding hidden flash and sound that as you surf these days you may be experiencing delays, lock ups etc but it's those dumb webmasters out there with bells and whistles rather than brains causing some of the havoc.
Even large corporations websites are getting increasingly worse to navigate, pop ups, talking characters and all sorts of junk and jingles that wreak havoc on your browser and settings. Embedded flash video files that do not stream are also very common, not everyone surfs with 20mb line speed.
In a recent interview Google's Matt Cutts spelled it out, keep it simple! But the software to knock up a website in 10 minutes is out there cheap, flash website templates, very cheap, prompts you where to add sound, what the button should read on mouse over, what the link should be, drag and drop page layout yadda yadda yadda ... very simple, but when the Google and the surfer come along you bugger them up.
So if you experience a lock up, think about what you were doing.
