[X4U] Macbook Pro

[Zane H. Healy]

At 10:22 PM -0600 5/12/07, Robert MacLeay wrote:
>
>  > On May 12, 2007, at 5:42 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:

>  >> My G5 2x2 needed more RAM with 3.5GB, though with the 5.5GB I just
>  >> went to it is feeling a lot better.
>
>Compare! PPC vs. Intel memory demands are different.

How do the RAM needs between the PPC and Intel based Mac's compare? 
I've not played with an Intel based Mac enough yet to have any feel 
for how much RAM it needs.  I simply went ahead and maxed out the RAM 
at 2GB in the MacBook when we purchased it last weekend.

Just so long as the memory requirements aren't like the change from 
VAX to Alpha under VMS, where 4x increase in needed RAM would be a 
good rough number.  It's been long enough I don't remember how they 
changed from 68k to PPC on the Mac.  Though I do remember my 
PowerBook 520c had a very tight 20Mb and my PowerMac 8500/180 started 
out with 32Mb and was quickly upgraded to 160Mb.

		Zane



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