Hi Gabe,
*shrug* I don't know that I'd grant that since I don't have data for
who is on the list and what folks on the list are using their Macs
for personally and professionally. There seems to be anecdotal
evidence that some on the list may need more RAM than the average
bear...those doing audio work, for instance. Your original question
was "...why would somebody need 2GB RAM"...or something to that
effect. The answers you got pretty much covered it. In my experience,
512 is adequate and about the minimum (for reasonably "snappy"
performance). More RAM means snappier performance and 2GB is no
longer a tremendous amount of RAM if you're asking your Mac to do
some moderately heavy lifting.
Joe
On Sep 10, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Gabriel Vega wrote:
Joe, grant it that 512 is adiquate for most of the consumers on
this list.
2gb is overkill
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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
