That’s weird... if I did the same things (ripping while running that assortment of software) I’d be seeing a lot of big pauses and the occasional pinwheel. Hm, I usually also have Eclipse running and 3 browsers with a total of 100 or so tabs... -T
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > I arrived home this evening and fired up my MBP 13", dropped a DVD in > to rip (want to watch it on the iPad, so I rip them into an MP4 file) > with WinX Ripper for Mac and started the ripping process. I did my > accounting, started Lightroom 4 and imported a dozen new photos into > it, edited them, output some JPEGs, annotated them with Photoshop CS5, > posted them to DPR, did some other stuff. The rip is halfway done now. > Activity Monitor has always had 40% green showing, even with Lr, > Safari, WinX Ripper, Photoshop, and my text editor up, running and > working... > > I wouldn't worry too much about memory, really. The MBA13" does just > fine with Lr4 and 4G RAM. > > And what's this silliness about "Apple being weird about telling the > memory limits"? Just go to the Apple site and look up the technical > specs for any system. EG: > > http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs-17inch.html > > It's right there in Processor and Memory. All current MBPs support up to 8G. > Older models, to to the Support tab, find out how to discover what > model you have, then find the tech specs for that model. Easy. > > G > > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:26 PM, David Mann <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mar 29, 2012, at 3:52 PM, steve harley wrote: >> >>> you can put 16 GB into all the 2010 & 2011 MacBook Pros (the Airs you >>> cannot upgrade); Apple has a tradition of weird conservatism about stating >>> maximum RAM >> >> I think mine's a 2007 model and I have 4GB in it. I did some reading not >> long ago, apparently some people have managed to get 6GB working but that >> seems to be the limit. >> >> The trouble is, I have a tendency to run both Safari and Firefox side by >> side. If I start up my WinXP virtual machine on top of that then things >> start to get difficult. I'd swim along nicely in 16GB. >> >> Other than that the machine runs amazingly well considering its age. All >> I've had to do is replace the battery a couple of months ago. >> >> Dave >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > Godfrey > godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
