On 13 Aug 2006 at 18:41, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > http://finalemusic.com/finale/system-requirements.aspx > > I think 256 Megs of Ram means free Ram.
I've never ever seen any pieces of software list system requirements in that way and assume you'll understand they mean *free* RAM instead of *installed* RAM. You may be right that that's what they mean, though, in which case, they should say so explicitly. > . . . Why are we complaining about > this? Just go and get some ram. You spent $99 on the upgrade, why not > splurge for a stick of 512Megs? I'm going to assume you have an older > system, and Ram for those is cheap. While I agree that RAM is cheap and that adding it is an excellent way to speed up an old system, additional RAM actually has very little effect on how fast *Finale* runs, because it's not a RAM- hungry program in the first place. Secondly, if the upgrade was bought by someone who is poor on the basis of the system requirements listed at the URL above, then I think it's reasonable for that purchaser to be upset to find out that it means FREE RAM instead of INSTALLED RAM. I still don't believe that's the case, though, as it would make no sense, as you'd sometimes be able to run the installer and sometimes not. Secondly, Windows calculates free RAM using the swap file, so changing your swap file size could allow you to end up with the system reporting more than 256MBs of free RAM, even though you haven't added any actual RAM to the system. It just doesn't make any sense to me for MM to mean FREE RAM instead of INSTALLED RAM. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
