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What 4GB of RAM can do!

bluedoggiant

bluedoggiant

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I guess the picture says it all, click to enlarge. Your looking at all my apps open, 78 apps, from 3D graphics generators, movie editing, image editing, tons of other stuff you can imagine, handbrake is open, CPU (2.8ghz) is almost full, and still, ~184MB free of RAM to play with, and the imac is still fast, the problem is that the dock icons are miniature, not really why 4gb is worth it, but thought i would share what its capable of:


4gbapps.png



Though I will admit, the speed is splendid, the graphics are choppy with all this open

my imac geekbenched at 3016, its originally 36xx.
 
nick9191 said:
Why do you have 3 imacs :p
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lol

the 2.8ghz is mine

the other 2.8ghz is delivering on tueday, its my dads, his is 1TB, but mine is 500GB


the 20" 2.4 is my dad's work mac at his office, he doesnt like the PC there obviously

and the mbp is my dads laptop

the MB is the family mac.
 
Better tell your dad that the new imacs will be made available around 3 days from now :eek:
 
An upgrade of Graphics would be welcome for sure...

Whether or not they include Blu Ray...backwards compatibility with an external drive and HDCP (FW800) monitor support so we would have the ability to add one if we would like.
Watching 1080p on their 24" at a foot and a half away would be gorgeous:)

Jeremy
 
bluedoggiant said:
lol

the 2.8ghz is mine
the other 2.8ghz is delivering on tueday, its my dads, his is 1TB, but mine is 500GB

the 20" 2.4 is my dad's work mac at his office, he doesnt like the PC there obviously

and the mbp is my dads laptop

the MB is the family mac.
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Wait a minute. That means you still have only one iMac and no MBP or MacBook. :p

You could say "Me:" and "Family:"though.
 
I can't see either, but if its a P2P program, its perfectly legal, its what people do with it thats illegal.

Oh and yeah the new iMac is due on Tuesday, so you might want to tell your dad not to open it and take it back and get a new one.
 
bluedoggiant said:
I guess the picture says it all, click to enlarge. Your looking at all my apps open, 78 apps, from 3D graphics generators, movie editing, image editing, tons of other stuff you can imagine, handbrake is open, CPU (2.8ghz) is almost full, and still, ~184MB free of RAM to play with, and the imac is still fast, the problem is that the dock icons are miniature, not really why 4gb is worth it, but thought i would share what its capable of:


http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/bluedoggiant/4gbapps.png


Though I will admit, the speed is splendid, the graphics are choppy with all this open

my imac geekbenched at 3016, its originally 36xx.
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lol your a coupla months behind :p. i did that test ages ago.


a funny thing was when i did that on my mbp CD (see sig). i accidentally opened my an applications folder which had around 80 applications. boy was that fun. had 2 folding applications in it aswell. didnt let me bring up force quite for about 5 minutes. i did however get a SS and will post that soon :p
 
nick9191 said:
I can't see either, but if its a P2P program, its perfectly legal, its what people do with it thats illegal.

Oh and yeah the new iMac is due on Tuesday, so you might want to tell your dad not to open it and take it back and get a new one.
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Oh, I think I see what it is. Perhaps it's a serial cracker?

Let's not jump to conclusions though.
 
xUKHCx said:
:rolleyes:

I think the title should be "Why 4GB of ram is overkill for my needs"
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oi id love 4gb ram if i could get it for my mbp. lately with uni i have been finding myself with no RAM left because i have to run stinking winblows, and have 4/5 spaces filled with 4-5 safari tabs each, a word doc or 2 and some pdf's each.

i must admit, my mbp, even thought getting on a little bit, does handle these tasks very very well.
 
I suppose, but when would the average person use that?

I'm not saying its useless, but for most people 1Gb-2Gb is plenty.
 
zap2 said:
I suppose, but when would the average person use that?

I'm not saying its useless, but for most people 1Gb-2Gb is plenty.
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tru good point. take for eg old people.. why would they need anything more than a g3 imac?? i still even use it when im downstairs to remote into my mac/check emails do word stuff blaablaablaa.

really depends on what u do.
 
zap2 said:
I suppose, but when would the average person use that?

I'm not saying its useless, but for most people 1Gb-2Gb is plenty.
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I agree and that is what my statement was about because I really didn't see what the OP uses that would requite 4GB of ram especially considering this "test".

Myself I have 4GB of ram and definitely chug through it very quickly with the analytical software that I use.
 
The multitasking on Macs is indeed amazing. I did the same thing on my PowerMac G4 right after expose came out. I launched about 10-20 documents in each of word, excel, powerpoint, safari, to make the expose look more crowded - still a lot of apps running though, and only at 58% of the processor and 1 GB of RAM.

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multi-task.jpg
 
4GB of RAM is indeed awesome, i got it on both MacBook and iMac (but only because i found a place which sells REALLY cheap apple RAM)

the best way to slow down such a beast is to open as many VMware machines as you've got, and run all of the apps you can inside of there...meanwhile in OSX, open up office for mac 2008 suite, and also adobe cs3 suite...if you get that far, you have more than 4GB RAM
 
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