[X4U] RAM Memory - What's the max?

[Stroller]

On 21 Jul 2007, at 08:06, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>> ...
>> I have a simple desktop system but use lots of ram and still page  
>> quite a bit. I would like to bump it up to 64G but IIRC the max I  
>> can have is 16. Why does Apple seeming limit the ram on their  
>> systems?
>
> You want 64GB of RAM in your Desktop system?!?!

?!?!  indeed.
But it would be cool, though, wouldn't it?

> What on earth are you running that you need that much RAM?  Some  
> kind of massive simulations?  I'm curious to know, why anyone would  
> need 64GB of RAM on their desktop at this point.

I'm pretty sure I read this week that medium-format is still in use  
in the most-glossy kinds of modelling & advertising photography.  
Digital backs for these cameras come in at c 22 megapixels, IIRC, and  
the RAW files must be pretty large. One might surmise that an owner  
of such a camera or a Photoshopper working on such images could put  
16gig RAM to use.

Stroller.