On Thu, 08 May 2014 09:04:44 -0400, Kent Borg wrote: > On 05/07/2014 10:50 PM, Tom Metro wrote: >> 32 GB is probably still overkill for a desktop, but after suffering with >> a machine that's been on the low side, I'm pondering going to the other >> extreme for my next build. > > I hate it when people respond to a question with "Why do you want to do > that?", but forgive me, I am going to do it now: Why? > > Here is why I ask: I am just shifting things over to a new 16GB machine. I > got that much because I could and it was pretty cheap. But I don't know what > I am going to do with all that. That is a *bleep* of a lot of RAM.
I have a few monster spreadsheets (whether at least one of them should be a spreadsheet is a good question, but that's neither here nor there). With 16GB on my laptop, it pages. -- Robert Krawitz <[email protected]> MIT VI-3 1987 - Congrats MIT Engineers 6 straight men's hoops tourney Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- http://ProgFree.org Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
