Joe, grant it that 512 is adiquate for most of the consumers on this list. 2gb is overkill Gabe Vega The BlindTechs Network Website: http://blindtechs.net Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (602) 476-2307 (562) 261-5277 (866) 714-4244 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kafka's Daytime" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by the blind" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 2:38 AM Subject: Re: 24 inch iMac
> > On Sep 10, 2006, at 4:56 AM, Gabriel Vega wrote: > > > so why would some one want 2gb of ram? > > Short answer: snappy performance. > > Longer answer: games (developing and playing them), multimedia > production and playback (audio, video/effects/compositing, image > processing, 3D), modeling/scientific number crunching...are all > [examples of] applications which need or want more RAM. 2GB is not a > super-tremendous amount of RAM (anymore) considering that a *minimum* > of 256MB is recommended just to run Mac OS X. Even though 256MB is > listed as the minimum requirement for Mac OS X, Apple is beginning to > include 512MB on more Macs (and Mac OS X, in my experience, runs very > noticeably "snappier" with 512 vs. 256). > > Preemptively, I note: I'm not suggesting, with the preceding, that > you can't do just fine on a machine equipped with 256MB RAM if your > needs are modest...but 256MB certainly ain't what it used to be. > > Joe > >
