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Old 12-15-2010, 01:25 AM   #33
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Originally Posted by sidd.artha View Post
If there is the code for checking for upgrades, and the author has thrown in here everything but the kitchen sink (reader, converter, database) and there is a book reader which supports some HTML, yet for checking out the patched issues you get to fire the web browser. Which, as I said above, means a lot for a 1G machine. I'm sure that there are geeks out there with 1TB of RAM or even more, yet there are still out there laptops with 256MB or 512MB of RAM. They are quite good for having as book readers, as with my netbook, yet they could not possibly run an unoptimised mammoth like Calibre.
Patience young Jedi. I have an install of Calibre on my old laptop as a backup (I like to keep a second machine in the event of my primary laptop failing due to study requirements) and it is a Celeron 650mhz with 384mb ram and it runs Calibre. My ebook size isn't 2500, it is 300 and whilst it does run slower than my main laptop, it is still very usable (granted it does run Linux and not Windows but that shouldn't matter).

Secondly I'd check out your memory usage before you run Calibre and check how much you actually have free. I know some netbooks (my wife's included) eats ram like there is no tomorrow just booting up (Win 7 with Anti-virus). As soon as she visits a website with flash it starts to swap (and this has 1GB ram). So the problem might not be Calibre per se, could be more with the Windows install.
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