[X4U] Well, well

[Daly Jessup]

>On Jul 23, 2008, at 11:56 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
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>>I'm trying to decide if you're being sarcastic, or serious.  On one 
>>hand, yes, the mice suck.  What is up with only one mouse button on 
>>the laptops?  At the same time, you're saying that with four HD 
>>drive bays + two optical drive bays, the Mac Pro isn't expandable 
>>drive wise?  You're complaining that the Mac Pro only goes up to 
>>32Gb of RAM, and not 128Gb?!?!?!  Yikes!  If you're serious, I 
>>don't think I want to know what your computer requirements are.  
>>Personally I'm ticked they don't make a mid-range tower with say 2 
>>drive bays and 8GB RAM max.

Ed Gould answered:

>I am serious... While I don't mind (too much) having 4 external 
>drives IMO its a PITA. The memory comment is dead on serious. I have 
>the need for 15+ applications to be running and 32GB is pushing it 
>(a lot) and no I don't run the usual pigs these are just misc apps.

This is still not making sense to me, though I've been trying to 
follow this discussion. Why do you have four external drives? There 
is room inside a Mac Pro for 4 drives. If those are filled and you 
still have four external drives, then your needs are way way above 
the usual. What are the externals? Backup drives?

At my company, the guy who makes all our major corporate films works 
on a Mac Pro with four internal terabyte drives, two 30-inch screens 
and 32 GB of RAM and is able to render long movies very fast and 
continue working on other projects.  What are you doing on your 
computer that requires more than 32 GB of RAM?  I am able to run my 
iMac with Photoshop and email and internet and assorted background 
programs, and Excel, all at the same time, and sometimes more, like 
VMWare Fusion, with 3 (three) Gb of RAM!

I'd really be interested to know what processes would require that much RAM.

Daly
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