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
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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. What do you all think or know about these numbers and
comments?
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