Why though? Surely that conflicts with saving money? On 25/06/2011, Kaare Dehard <kaare.deh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, I just saved my pennies and maxed out my machines as much as > I can afford. macbook pro and imac all with 8.On 2011-06-25, at 12:45 PM, > Geoff Shang wrote: > >> On Sat, 25 Jun 2011, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote: >> >>> Naama, >> >> I'm Naama's husband. Of course, she can answer for herself, but I helped >> make the decision. >> >>> 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. >> >> This is a 2011-model iMac withan I5 quad-core and a 500 gb 7200 RPM hard >> drive. We bought it with the extra RAM. >> >>> 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. >> >> Actually, she didn't imply this. She actually said: >> >> "I upgraded my iMac to 8gigs of ram and I am not sorry in the learst." >> >> This is not to say that she would have been unhappy with 4 gb of RAM, just >> that she's happy she opted to buy the extra 4 gb. >> >> It is quite possible that a recent iMac will operate just fine on 4 gb of >> RAM for the foreseeable future. But macs are not cheap. As things are, >> we could not really afford to make this purchase, but we did because >> another computer died and we felt it was time to make the switch. As >> such, we felt that 8 gb of RAM would future-proof the machine as much as >> possible without being a major expense. >> >> It's worth remembering that the iMac by default comes with 4 gb of RAM. >> Yes, it also comes wiht Garage Band and iMovie Maker, and quite possibly >> that 4 gb of RAM is to accommodate these sorts of software. But the fact >> is that it does ship with it and we use VoiceOver on top of these things. >> >> Someone already mentioned the system requirements for Lion. I can't help >> but wonder how much RAM the 2012 or 2013 era iMacs will ship with. >> >> I guess my view is that if you can afford the upgrade and plan to get the >> most out of your mac, there's no harm in doing it. Certainly it won't >> harm anything. If things are running fine and you can't really justify >> the expense, don't worry about it for now. >> >> Geoff. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > >
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