Oh, if you're running a VM like that, you need a MacBook Pro with 8G for sure. The VMs are huge RAM and cpu hogs. Never know. Maybe the next gen MBAs will have 8G.
G On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:24 AM, David Mann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 29, 2012, at 8:31 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >> I don't know why that would be so taxing. I often have both FireFox >> and Safari running side by side ... > > I should come clean, I do run more than just two browsers. I tend to run in > one of two modes. "Working" involves the two browsers plus a 512M Windows XP > instance running in Virtualbox. For "photo" stuff I have Bridge and > Photoshop. I find it best to close down the VM and quit Firefox if I want to > run Photoshop happily. > > I'm actually in the habit of closing down both Firefox and the VM when I'm > not using them, as the VM idles at about 10% CPU usage which doesn't help the > battery, and Firefox tends to hoard memory if you leave it running for a few > days. > > So ideally, for my usage, I'd like 8G as of now and at least 16G for future > proofing. Or maybe a good SSD so swapping can happen a bit faster. > > Dave > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
