i would love a comp where i could load the contents of my hd into ram then make the changes later.
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16GB of RAM? Anyone? Anyone?
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That would actually be 42GB.zwida said:I think you'll have to wait to find the meaning of life until there's a Mac that'll take 64GB of RAM.
do a lot of work in Shake and Maya, renderman (prMan) and other professional graphics applications, for film work. All the machines at work run 5-8gb of ram. I have 4gb in my home machine. I have never seen a significant improvement over 4gb in any machine that I have used, in either win64 or osx. We regularly hit bottlenecks where we are running multiple instances of 32bit apps simultaneosly and this is where more than 4gb comes in handy. For most tasks anything over that is uneccessary. In fact we have noticed a performance plateau at 8gb of ram on our 64bit applications. I am sure that some visualisation and simulation applications have higher requirements but for the vast majority of users I would saeriously consider 4gb enough. Especially untill commercial sofware manufacturers start to write applications that can properly address more ram.
For what we do drive speed is much more of an issue and we find that Fibre Channel RAIDs are only just keeping up with some tasks such as full res film throughput.
For what we do drive speed is much more of an issue and we find that Fibre Channel RAIDs are only just keeping up with some tasks such as full res film throughput.
4Gb is the point where memory is no longer a boundary after that it becomes the processor and i'm not talking about a 4GB For science work and intensive stuff, but for graphics work, Photoshop and what not 4GB is the point where the processer becomes the limit
That machine should be a limited edition model called Deep Thought. Douglas Adams anyone?
I just received my OctoMac Pro with 16GB of RAM today. I ordered it with only 1GB (2x512) and ordered my 16GB from a cheaper source. I've been maxing out 4GB for a few years now doing image stitching and video editing of extremely high-definition images, so I thought I'd go all out with 16 in the hope that I wouldn't have to use swap space for a few years.
Shawn
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I just received my OctoMac Pro with 16GB of RAM today. I ordered it with only 1GB (2x512) and ordered my 16GB from a cheaper source. I've been maxing out 4GB for a few years now doing image stitching and video editing of extremely high-definition images, so I thought I'd go all out with 16 in the hope that I wouldn't have to use swap space for a few years.
Shawn
Jeees tell us more! Got any Benchmarks you can run?
That would actually be 42GB.
Hahaha I just figured that out.. I was like "why 42" and then I remembered
Just so you know, some people here were talking about how different Linux distros support 64 gb of RAM etc...
Well apparently the 64 bit version of OS X and all the 64 bit CPUs Apple have used in the past and present can support and allocate up to 64 terabytes of RAM effectively. It's just that none of the chipsets in any of the Macs support that much. An aEngineer told me a MacPro could take up to 128 gigs of RAM, but you can't get 16 gb RAM sticks.
Might all be cobblers but I was told by someone who really knows their stuff (built their own Xserve out of old parts).
Well apparently the 64 bit version of OS X and all the 64 bit CPUs Apple have used in the past and present can support and allocate up to 64 terabytes of RAM effectively. It's just that none of the chipsets in any of the Macs support that much. An aEngineer told me a MacPro could take up to 128 gigs of RAM, but you can't get 16 gb RAM sticks.
Might all be cobblers but I was told by someone who really knows their stuff (built their own Xserve out of old parts).
I bet we will see 64 terabytes of RAM in about 25 years. Then we will have to switch to 128 bit. Lol
I just received my OctoMac Pro with 16GB of RAM today. I ordered it with only 1GB (2x512) and ordered my 16GB from a cheaper source. I've been maxing out 4GB for a few years now doing image stitching and video editing of extremely high-definition images, so I thought I'd go all out with 16 in the hope that I wouldn't have to use swap space for a few years.
Shawn
Is it fast? Jk - is that even a question? But really, how much of a difference do you notice between this and your older Mac? Just curious.
Nope. 64-bit memory addressing is good for up to 16 exabytes (16 million terabytes). We won't need 128 bits for quite some time.
Can i see an about thi mac screenie for 16gigs? Thats amazing
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Wow, you think so? I think that it was intended to be.
I suppose he'd need that much power and RAM for keeping track of his prescription pills. And listing all them pesky liberals.