Hi, I do quite a bit on my machine, especially in audio. I am learning the macand plan to do all my audio work on it. Naama On 25 Jun 2011, at 19:28, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote:
> Naama, > > you say you upgraded your iMac, and you are pleased with the results, how > much did you have in the past, what speed of RAM, which Mac do you have, what > bus speed, what processor, how fast was the spin speed on your hard drive, > what cache level etc. > > you are implying that the pure RAM improvement made this difference, but the > implication is that you had a perfect machine and that the RAM slowed things > down, you may have had a lesser machine, and the RAM made things better for > you. > > I'm not saying that you did not notice a benefit, but I'm saying that you > likely would have noted one no matter what component you upgraded. > > what I am saying is that on a 2010 or even 2009 model Mac, with a good > specification all round, the difference in performance from 4Gb RAM to > anything above, will not be noticed by the average user whatsoever. > > > Regards, > > Neil Barnfather > > Talks List Administrator > Twitter @neilbarnfather > > TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, for all your > accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com > > URL: - www.talknav.com > e-mail: - serv...@talknav.com > Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 > > > > On 25 Jun 2011, at 13:58, Naama Shang wrote: > > 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. 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