MBP uses more ram?

[KD7IWP]

When I had a Rev. D Powerbook with 1 gig of RAM, I NEVER had a single pageout ever. With this Macbook Pro I have tons of Pageouts with the same 1 gb of RAM on two sticks (just like on the Pbook). Now I don't know if that is because I have iphoto '06 now since I only had '05 on the Pbook. Anybody else noticing this?

 

[mad jew]

Rosetta uses a lot of RAM although iPhoto shouldn't affect this. Are you using Rosetta much?

 

[KD7IWP]

Hmmm I have had office open, but never worked in it. And did not have iphoto open at the same time. So no, I have not been using Rosetta much. But I do see iPhoto taking upwards of 400 mb when it's open.

 

[mad jew]

Was that 400MB of real RAM or Virtual RAM? Also, what were the figures for Office?

 

[bousozoku]

Interesting, considering that we needed more RAM because the PowerPC processors were RISC-based and they always need more RAM. That the Core Duo is primarily CISC, it should need less RAM to complete its task. However, being that Mac OS X and the applications are only recently in large scale distribution may have something to do with this. Better tuning should follow.