tuartboy said:
Sorry to spam a bit on this thread, but I wanted to throw this out:
For my work I do various consulting tasks and last week one involved setting up a Dell Precision 690 (the exact system apple compared with the MP in the keynote) to run some fluid dynamics software. Being highly-demanding computational software, the system was equipped with 64Gb of memory. Yes, I said 64Gb.
I was wondering if anyone knows why apple would ever choose to cap this at 16Gb when there is a clear need for some applications to address more than 16Gb. The mobo is uncannily similar as well (the physical memory setup is identical) so it's apparently not a "too-big" problem and 64-bit can go to 16 exabytes...
I just figured if they were competing with the Dell that they would at least shoot for the same memory config to keep competitive for high-end users.
Since it is FB-Dimms, you can have 64 gigabyte of memory.
Every Dimm has it own processor. This is one of the reasons behond the FB-part.
I don't understand Apple.
When the original G5 was released, they said max 8gig.
With 2gig DIMMS, you could have 16gig.
Rev 2, they said max 16gig.
By then, 4gig DIMMS where released, so you could have 32gig.
Since there are 8 slots, 32gig should be the "limit" today, until bigger dimms.
I would love 32gig memory, my Final Cut projects, all in memory.
or meaby ITUNES will be fast!
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