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MacDawg

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smartalic34

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May 16, 2006
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will 2 gig ram be enough for snow leopard? to run it well? i know it says 1 gig minimum

yes, it'll be more than enough. provided you arent using things like final cut pro, etc. using safari, itunes, mail, etc. you'll be fine.

4GB is hardly enough for me when i use the iMac, 2GB in my main computer (MBP) is NOWHERE near near enough.

all my RAM is being used and im only running safari (5 tabs), adium, transmission, word itunes, mail etcetc.

when i start running parallels + FCE + DVD studio Pro + 2 user accounts -- boy is it slow!

Not for me... Safari uses 1 GB then kernel task uses 512 so that leaves 512 for everything else


I'm not sure how you use safari, but I also use safari (+/- 7 tabs), adium, itunes, and mail simultaneously and I never wind up using all 2GB of my RAM. dmmcintye3: are you leaving safari open for days at a time? I always quit when I'm done using it for the time being.
 

DoFoT9

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Jun 11, 2007
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I'm not sure how you use safari, but I also use safari (+/- 7 tabs), adium, itunes, and mail simultaneously and I never wind up using all 2GB of my RAM. dmmcintye3: are you leaving safari open for days at a time? I always quit when I'm done using it for the time being.

i dont close it because i leave articles, information etc open overnight/whenever. my computer hardly gets turned off let alone given a RAM Rest™.

atm (using the apps i had on b4 still) i have 260mb free, and 550mb inactive.. thats just for basic apps. im pretty demanding i guess, need...more...power!
:D
 

NightGeometry

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Apr 11, 2004
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i dont close it because i leave articles, information etc open overnight/whenever. my computer hardly gets turned off let alone given a RAM Rest™.

atm (using the apps i had on b4 still) i have 260mb free, and 550mb inactive.. thats just for basic apps. im pretty demanding i guess, need...more...power!
:D

I never used to close Safari, but now I do daily, I just use the History => Reopen all windows from last session. I get all my windows back, and my ram gets a bit of a refresh.
 

DoFoT9

macrumors P6
Jun 11, 2007
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I never used to close Safari, but now I do daily, I just use the History => Reopen all windows from last session. I get all my windows back, and my ram gets a bit of a refresh.

you know, thats a pretty good idea!! never thought of that. however normally when i do the "reopen tabs" it will freeze safari for a good 30seconds (opening up to 10 tabs can take its time on my poor old computer haha).

nice idea though i might def use this!
 

dmmcintyre3

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Mar 4, 2007
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I'm not sure how you use safari, but I also use safari (+/- 7 tabs), adium, itunes, and mail simultaneously and I never wind up using all 2GB of my RAM. dmmcintye3: are you leaving safari open for days at a time? I always quit when I'm done using it for the time being.

When I find that I have only 1 window in use I quit it. But my G4 takes a long time to reopen 10+ windows with 3+ tabs each. (now do you see why I want a 1920x1200 screen?)

4GB is hardly enough for me when i use the iMac, 2GB in my main computer (MBP) is NOWHERE near near enough.

all my RAM is being used and im only running safari (5 tabs), adium, transmission, word itunes, mail etcetc.

when i start running parallels + FCE + DVD studio Pro + 2 user accounts -- boy is it slow!

If your iMac takes 4 GB and uses it all it will take 6 GB.
Snow Leopard!

On a G4!
 

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Ttownbeast

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I am soooo tempted to overclock mine a couple extra 100 mhz but I won't until I get me one of them fancy liquid cooling units
 
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