[iBook] Two Questions....

[Angus Wallace]

Well, based on my experience. I have a G4/800 iBook, with 640 mb RAM. I use a
lot of RAM. Typically I'll have 10 - 15 applications open at once (iTunes,
Mail, Camino, a couple of text editors, X11) and I have used Matlab (which as
anyone will tell you can bring any machine to its knees). I also do multitrack
recording on it, and have used photoshop/GIMP, etc..

(although I don't really use Word/excel/etc - which I reckon are poorly written
and use heaps of RAM - or OpenOffice, which despite being excellent uses TONS
of it... ;-)

One thing that can eat a bit of ram is having heaps of web pages open at once
(say 10 or more), but even that... she should be fine with 512, I would've
thought.

Anyway.. I'm sure someone on the list will contradict me if I'm wrong ;-).

Having said that, OSX is based on Unix which is very good at utilising all the
RAM that's available, so a rule of thumb is more == better. (heh heh - I think
I've just contradicted myself)

I guess it depends how much money she has, and if she could better spend it
elsewhere. I think the performance improvement will be minimal at best.

Cheers,
-Gus

Quoting Pat <patdart at cox.net>:

> She bought it last C'mas or slightly before.  How sure are you that 
> this is the case?  She gave her old laptop to her husband and they 
> travel in an RV and she's noticed how much easier it is for her husband 
> to find a connection.  He even teases her about it.
> 
> She uses it for PS Elements, email, etc.  Nothing so intensive.
> 
> Pat
> On Jul 10, 2006, at 6:12 PM, Angus Wallace wrote:
> 
> >
> >> She has 512 ram and is having it taken to 1G.  It's a new one,
> >> by the way.
> >
> > That is indeed a pity. Unless she has many RAM-intensive applications 
> > (for
> > example: video editing, multi-track music recording, high-end 
> > scientific
> > analysis, etc) open at once, it's unlikely she'll notice any 
> > difference at all.
> > It's probably worth her trying to renige on that if she can - she 
> > could cite
> > misleading advice as her reason.
> 
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