It has gotten better over time.
At one time memory price was an issue.
I remember way back when memory sold for $60 a MB. (We sold a custom
machine where the man wanted 16 MB of ram, cost him $640 a lone for the ram.)
Memory has become so cheap (comparatively, same with HD cost) that
this is no longer the issue and manufacturers will put more RAM into
the machine to sell.
Plus the ever expanding programs call for more RAM.
I remember my first Windows 98 machines had maybe 512 MB in
them. Unthinkable now, but this was the case for a long time.
My fist PC had 64K in it and I had to replace all the chip banks to
get it to 640K
Stewart
At 05:44 PM 12/22/2009, you wrote:
If they want to market to the masses, they will sell Windows based
machines. That is still what the masses want, albeit mostly for what
is perceived as being able to save money and/or being able to have
what "everybody else" has.
I do not know of any new Macs ever sold that had RAM in amounts that
was inadequate to the point of not being able to be booted up. I'm
pretty sure that Macs, even those from twenty years ago, and including
the latest, all had sufficient RAM to be able to run most basic
applications. They might bog down if running multiple apps, but no
one would have felt as if they had been ripped off.
If selling computers that have insufficient RAM to the point of
being essentially dysfunctional is not all that uncommon, then I do
not think it is an issue related to Macs. If true, then that is
probably an attribute of overseeing the manufacturing of your own
computers that run your own OS.
Steve
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