Scratch

bjsvoboda · 2010-06-21 16:07:35

We are working with ten 5-yr-old laptops and have a bit of money to upgrade the memory from its current 256k. We'll be replacing all ten machines by the end of next year, so don't want to spend too much $$ on this patch-up. With that in mind, will upgrading to 512k be sufficient, or or is that still really too slow? I know the program will work on even 256k, but would prefer not to have too slow a processing wait or I'll loose all the students. Thanks for your suggestions!

coolstuff · 2010-06-21 16:13:40

I don't think it'll be too slow. You might find it slightly difficult to work with longer scripts (as with pretty much every computer), but other than that 512kb should work just fine - that's what the computer I'm on now has and it can work Scratch perfectly fine. I think the only real issue you have is if your computers have 256kb or less RAM. smile

archmage · 2010-06-21 16:46:17

If your students are new to programming then they probably won't use more than 256k. The main issue a lot of people have with memory and scratch is that the online player tends to be much more inefficient so avoid using the online player a lot. Scratch runs best in presentation mode.

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cds56 · 2010-06-21 21:49:05

archmage wrote:
If your students are new to programming then they probably won't use more than 256k. The main issue a lot of people have with memory and scratch is that the online player tends to be much more inefficient so avoid using the online player a lot. Scratch runs best in presentation mode.

256 K of ram??

Are you all insane?!?

Some of the earliest macintoshes had 4mb of ram!
Or you all must be talking about something different, I suppose.

coolstuff · 2010-06-21 22:05:32

cds56 wrote:
archmage wrote:
If your students are new to programming then they probably won't use more than 256k. The main issue a lot of people have with memory and scratch is that the online player tends to be much more inefficient so avoid using the online player a lot. Scratch runs best in presentation mode.
256 K of ram??

Are you all insane?!?

Some of the earliest macintoshes had 4mb of ram!
Or you all must be talking about something different, I suppose.

No, the early Macintosh had 128KB of RAM - hence the name the "Macintosh 128K." smile

cds56 · 2010-06-22 06:06:26

coolstuff wrote:
cds56 wrote:
archmage wrote:
If your students are new to programming then they probably won't use more than 256k. The main issue a lot of people have with memory and scratch is that the online player tends to be much more inefficient so avoid using the online player a lot. Scratch runs best in presentation mode.
256 K of ram??

Are you all insane?!?

Some of the earliest macintoshes had 4mb of ram!
Or you all must be talking about something different, I suppose.
No, the early Macintosh had 128KB of RAM - hence the name the "Macintosh 128K."

oh yeah, right, but they would've had issues running scratch too.

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what is optimum computer memory for Scratch?

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Re: what is optimum computer memory for Scratch?

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Re: what is optimum computer memory for Scratch?

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Re: what is optimum computer memory for Scratch?

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Re: what is optimum computer memory for Scratch?

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