Personally I play WoW and I basically want as much RAM as I can afford.
I have a 1.67GHz 15" ALBook so I had the luxury of starting with 512M
in a single DIMM. One single 1GB DIMM later and I'm sitting pretty on
1.5GB.
Mal
On 28/09/2005, at 5:04 PM, Martin Hill wrote:
I have a 1.25GHz 15" Aluminium PowerBook G4 with 2GBs of RAM and
find I use
all the RAM available. Safari really eats up RAM particularly when
like me
you leave it open all the time and have 30+ windows and tabs open.
OS X
loves RAM and the more you can afford the less you'll be paging out
to disk
which means the faster you'll be running.
Although I do every now and then run Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio pro
and the
like, most of the time I am just running Safari, Word, Entourage,
iTunes,
Apple Remote Desktop, Quicksilver, Adium, Preview, Quicktime (being
what I
have open as I write this).
Currently Activity Monitor tells me the following:
Wired: 217MB
Active: 1.17GB
Inactive: 604MB
Used: 1.97GB
Free: 33MB
VM size: 11.7GB
If you want to run Virtual PC as well, I would highly recommend as
much RAM
as you can possibly afford.
-Mart
From: Adam Yap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:38:17 +0800
To: WAMUG Mailing List <[email protected]>
Subject: How much RAM? The eternal question
Hey all,
I just picked up this 15" 1.25ghz Powerbook with 512MB of RAM. It's
just not enough.
So what do I do? I've got 2x256MB sticks right now. I could buy a 512
and go to 768, buy 2x512 to go to 1024 or buy a single 1gb chip and
go to 1256mb.
Has anyone gone from 768 to higher? Did anyone note any need for
this? I'm just your normal Camino, Mail, iTunes, iView Media Pro,
Adium, Quicksilver running kinda guy :)
Adam
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