How would having 2GB RAM help me?

[terry_bogard_007]

Yes if you're doing on the fly copying (which is ill-advised)

Why is slow burning ( slow speed and not on the fly ) better than fast?
is the computer not capable of creating the same quality CD / DVD's if burnt with a faster speed?

1. Transfering large files from one harddrive to another ( I often work with large video files, some which go up to a few GB in size )

RAM may help but not noticeably, the bottleneck is the drive.

ok I've got the extra 1GB RAM now, so adding on to the 512MB i had before I now have 1.5 GB.
and just now I moved a 2.5 GB file from one drive to another, and the memory jumped from around 1.1 GB available to 600MB! would have taken i reckon about 7,8 minutes before but now it only took 2,3 minutes!
I could not be more happy about getting this upgrade - go buy RAM i say to everyone out there!