2 of my macs have 2 GB of ram, and I'm able to run the mac and windows side by side without problems. My other mac has 4 GB, certainly if you can afford more ram, go for it, it certainly won't hurt any. On Jun 25, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote:
> CJ, no one said 2Gb was enough, but on my 3 MAc's with 4Gb each, they never > do that busy thing with pages, no-one is saying that to little is enough, but > that there is a cross over between not enough and enough, and over board. > > > 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 17:55, CJ Daniel wrote: > > Really, > > Have you tried looking through the hundreds of templates in the opening > screen of Pages? Every time you arrow to another template image there are > moments of "Pages Busy," while the VoiceOver tries to process the info. And, > I've got two gigs of ram. Disagree wholeheartedly. The more ram, the faster > your screen reader will respond. That's always been my experience, despite > what the tech's say. > > CJ > > > On Jun 25, 2011, at 12:18 AM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote: > >> you are being stone walled, I run a major internet hosting operation, it >> comes down to what are you doing with your machine? if you are doing basic >> word processing, spread sheets, e-mail, internet, the usual things, iTunes >> etc etc. then 4Gb is more than enough. >> >> yes, if you are going to start loading multiple voice synth files in, then >> you may wish to look at more, but assuming you opt for one, Alex, the basic >> Apple voice, which is very good and fine for 99% of users. then 4Gb is more >> than enough. >> >> things like Pages, Numbers, Safari and Mail the four key players of apps, oh >> and iTunes all use tiny amounts of RAM in real terms, so you are quite >> literally paying for the RAM to sit there and do nothing. >> >> this business of the more the merrier, you're the one who is going to be >> forking out for all this unutalized RAM, I'm really, very serious about this >> over purchase, its just not necessary, you will hand on heart notice >> absolutely no difference whatsoever, and anyone thinking you will just >> doesn't understand how these things are really put together. its an old >> wives tail. >> >> true in the days when we had 8Mb hard drives and when my cache level on my >> current machine would make my machine's RAM even 10 years ago, go green with >> envy, but this is the 21st century, technology is so very much more than the >> RAM in the machine. >> >> save your money, don't forget, you can always easily upgrade RAM later. >> >> put it in one final other way, we have some 76,000 servers running, roughly, >> most of these have between 16Gb and 64Gb of RAM, but these are handling >> hundreds of clients at any one time, and serving up web pages and e-mail to >> millions. >> >> the most strenuous task you are going to do is to ask your machine to tab >> between several running applications at the same time, and 4Gb of RAM is >> more than enough to achieve this at far higher speeds than your fingers can >> press the buttons to achieve the goal. >> >> I've said my bit, more than my bit, this is not so much a twopence worth, as >> more my wealth of experience and knowledge in this industry, you are wasting >> your money over 4Gb, do not buy less though. >> >> *Note*, this is advice aimed at regular users, if you are about to start >> mixing up the decks, or creating your very own commercial home movies, then >> lets re-think, but Minister Miller, assuming this is a divinity related >> title, if the most you are doing is the odd e-mail, the odd Surinam for >> Sunday service, and a like, then seriously, 4Gb... hum, on second thoughts, >> is God on WiFi, you might need an extra WiFi base station... :) grin. >> >> >> 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 05:24, 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 compatible >> 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 editing. 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