Hi folks, I just saved my pennies and maxed out my machines as much as I can afford. macbook pro and imac all with 8.On 2011-06-25, at 12:45 PM, Geoff Shang wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2011, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote: > >> Naama, > > I'm Naama's husband. Of course, she can answer for herself, but I helped > make the decision. > >> 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. > > This is a 2011-model iMac withan I5 quad-core and a 500 gb 7200 RPM hard > drive. We bought it with the extra RAM. > >> 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. > > Actually, she didn't imply this. She actually said: > > "I upgraded my iMac to 8gigs of ram and I am not sorry in the learst." > > This is not to say that she would have been unhappy with 4 gb of RAM, just > that she's happy she opted to buy the extra 4 gb. > > It is quite possible that a recent iMac will operate just fine on 4 gb of RAM > for the foreseeable future. But macs are not cheap. As things are, we could > not really afford to make this purchase, but we did because another computer > died and we felt it was time to make the switch. As such, we felt that 8 gb > of RAM would future-proof the machine as much as possible without being a > major expense. > > It's worth remembering that the iMac by default comes with 4 gb of RAM. Yes, > it also comes wiht Garage Band and iMovie Maker, and quite possibly that 4 gb > of RAM is to accommodate these sorts of software. But the fact is that it > does ship with it and we use VoiceOver on top of these things. > > Someone already mentioned the system requirements for Lion. I can't help but > wonder how much RAM the 2012 or 2013 era iMacs will ship with. > > I guess my view is that if you can afford the upgrade and plan to get the > most out of your mac, there's no harm in doing it. Certainly it won't harm > anything. If things are running fine and you can't really justify the > expense, don't worry about it for now. > > Geoff. > > -- > 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.
