I have a 1 gig RAM & a 2 gig processor. I really don't know a whole lot about these kinds of techno things. Here's some of my reasoning. If it will make this laptop considerably faster now then I can pop for it but when we get the house built I will get a new desk top computer & it can have the proper bells & whistles so if adding to this won't do all that much for me now then I might be better off waiting.