I upgraded my iMac to 8gigs of ram and I am not sorry in the learst. Ram, compared to other things,is relatively inexpensive, and the results are well worth it. Naama On 25 Jun 2011, at 08:48, CJ Daniel wrote:
> Kliff, > > I was a programmer for years, starting back in the mid-80's. I got my first > PC in, about, '90 or '91, when we were all using DOS 3.5. I've gone through > all the successions. I.E. various versions of DOS, Windows 3.1, '95, '98 SE, > ME, XP, Vista & now Apple Mac. I suppose there can come a time when a user > is buying more memory than they really need. But, through out all of those > experiences, the rule-of-thumb where memory was concerned, especially for > those users who were adding the huge overhead of screen reading technology, > was, "the more the merrier." In fact, my understanding for the new OS > upgrade called Lion is that you need @ least 2GB to run it. I'm looking @ > upgrading my 2 Gigs to as much as Little Mama will hold. My advice is, shove > as much as you can in there & just enjoy the results. > > CJ > > > On Jun 24, 2011, at 9:24 PM, Kliph&Sharrie wrote: > >> Okay, I am still on a few windows screen readers lists, since I teach a few >> basic classes about JFW and know a lot about the windows side of things. >> Anyways, someone said on this list that the average blind user needs no more >> than 4 gigs of ram, at best anything over 8 would be a waste. I'm no >> exburt, but I have done a little research, and googling and have found that >> the more ram you have, the smoother your system will run, mac or PC. This >> person seem to think even if you had a fast processor, that spending money >> on ram was a waste. Now I will admitt, that apple is a little pricy when it >> comes to ram, but there are third party sellers out there with compatable >> memory for just about any system. Thoughts? Oh, 1 more thing this person >> said, that the only way more than 4 gigs would be necessary is if you were >> doing some high quality video or audio editting. What do you all think or >> know about these numbers and comments? >> >> Sent from Minister Miller's IPhone >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
