What? Gabe, my iMac has 1GB of ram in it. I've learned long ago, no matter
what computer and OS you are using that RAM is what keeps the thing running
well. As a "computer tech" you of all people should never be telling people
what is adequate with a computer. I remember when I got my first PC
thinking how cool it was that I had a 40MB drive and for the longest time I
kept thinking it was adequate. Well, here we are in 2006 and you'd never
get through with a drive that small. Yet techs back then said otherwise.
The point is that you can't say what is right for users on this list. Kind
of off base. A bit short sighted too.
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From: "Gabriel Vega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: 24 inch iMac
Joe, grant it that 512 is adiquate for most of the consumers on this list.
2gb is overkill
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kafka's Daytime" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
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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
