Naama, you say you upgraded your iMac, and you are pleased with the results, how much did you have in the past, what speed of RAM, which Mac do you have, what bus speed, what processor, how fast was the spin speed on your hard drive, what cache level etc.
you are implying that the pure RAM improvement made this difference, but the implication is that you had a perfect machine and that the RAM slowed things down, you may have had a lesser machine, and the RAM made things better for you. I'm not saying that you did not notice a benefit, but I'm saying that you likely would have noted one no matter what component you upgraded. what I am saying is that on a 2010 or even 2009 model Mac, with a good specification all round, the difference in performance from 4Gb RAM to anything above, will not be noticed by the average user whatsoever. Regards, Neil Barnfather Talks List Administrator Twitter @neilbarnfather TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, for all your accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com URL: - www.talknav.com e-mail: - [email protected] Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 On 25 Jun 2011, at 13:58, Naama Shang wrote: I upgraded my iMac to 8gigs of ram and I am not sorry in the learst. Ram, compared to other things,is relatively inexpensive, and the results are well worth it. Naama On 25 Jun 2011, at 08:48, CJ Daniel wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
