Not necessarily. You might be saving money long term by making the purchase you make today, able to handle demands you will make of it in the future.
Ricardo Walker [email protected] Twitter, Skype, & AIM: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Jun 25, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote: > Why though? Surely that conflicts with saving money? > > On 25/06/2011, Kaare Dehard <[email protected]> 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 [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.
