Ok, I just bought my first laptop. It's a Toshiba A105. It came with 1x256MB DDR2 533 RAM. Obviously it runs very slow because of this (the boot time is horrendous). I am not wanting to spend money on more then what I need. So I am thinking about ordering two 512MB sticks and having them in Dual channel or perhaps splurging a little more for two 1GB sticks. The only reason I could think of for going with 2GB of RAM is to make a RAM partition and set that as my pagefile (yes, I know, no memory dumps in case it crashes but I'm not really worried about that). Anyone have any experience with something like this? I'm wondering what kind of performance gain I could expect with moving my pagefile to a RAM drive. Also, from what I have heard about the internal workings of Win XP, turning off virtual ram is a bad idea no matter how much ram you have. So thats why I was thinking this idea was better. Any thoughts greatly appreciateed!