You know, going above four gb ram isn't strictly necessary for day to day computing. The article you're reading has it all backwards though. The processor is about 4 times faster than the ram in your computer. It's also a lot more expensive to buy a high end processor. Ram is a cheep upgrade, especially these days. It takes a load off of your hard drive by reducing the amount of swap space required. Maybe it does a few other things behind the scenes as well. If you want to spend money on a huge performance booster, chunk in a solid state hard drive. ssd rocks my world. Ram and ssd are both cheeper than a top of the line processor.
Best, Erik Burggraaf User support consultant, Now posting occasionally on twitter at eburggraaf, 1-888-255-5194 http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2011-06-25, at 12:24 AM, 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.
