Kliff, I was a programmer for years, starting back in the mid-80's. I got my first PC in, about, '90 or '91, when we were all using DOS 3.5. I've gone through all the successions. I.E. various versions of DOS, Windows 3.1, '95, '98 SE, ME, XP, Vista & now Apple Mac. I suppose there can come a time when a user is buying more memory than they really need. But, through out all of those experiences, the rule-of-thumb where memory was concerned, especially for those users who were adding the huge overhead of screen reading technology, was, "the more the merrier." In fact, my understanding for the new OS upgrade called Lion is that you need @ least 2GB to run it. I'm looking @ upgrading my 2 Gigs to as much as Little Mama will hold. My advice is, shove as much as you can in there & just enjoy the results.
CJ On Jun 24, 2011, at 9:24 PM, Kliph&Sharrie wrote: > Okay, I am still on a few windows screen readers lists, since I teach a few > basic classes about JFW and know a lot about the windows side of things. > Anyways, someone said on this list that the average blind user needs no more > than 4 gigs of ram, at best anything over 8 would be a waste. I'm no exburt, > but I have done a little research, and googling and have found that the more > ram you have, the smoother your system will run, mac or PC. This person seem > to think even if you had a fast processor, that spending money on ram was a > waste. Now I will admitt, that apple is a little pricy when it comes to ram, > but there are third party sellers out there with compatable memory for just > about any system. Thoughts? Oh, 1 more thing this person said, that the > only way more than 4 gigs would be necessary is if you were doing some high > quality video or audio editting. What do you all think or know about these > numbers and comments? > > Sent from Minister Miller's IPhone > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
