Re: [PLUG] OT: Mac OS X question

On 10/10/07, zuzu <sean.zuzu@gmail.com> wrote:

On 10/10/07, gabriel rosenkoetter < gr@eclipsed.net> wrote:
> At 2007-10-09 23:12 -0400, zuzu <sean.zuzu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/9/07, Mag Gam < magawake@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Also, how hard is it to upgrade Memory on a
> > > MacBook? Planning to get 1GB of RAM, but would like to upgrade to 2GB or
> > > even 4GB if possible.
> > > Any thoughts?
> > *DEFINITELY* max out your RAM to 4GB; OSX is a RAM hog and probably
> > should be running on 8GB if the laptop hardware supported it.
>
> First, I encourage you to find an Apple-made laptop that supports
> more than 2 GB of SO-DIMM RAM. (They don't exist. See
> http://support.apple.com/specs/.)

I don't think the official Apple specifications are the issue so much
as the lack of available 4GB SO-DIMMs.  I'd give at least 50/50 odds
that the Santa Rosa MacBook Pro can address more than 4GB (as it is a
truly 64-bit system, unlike previously when the C2D was dropped inside
a Core Duo intended motherboard -- compatible but unaware of the
64-bit addressing instructions of the Core 2 Duo).

> Second, while 1 GB is sluggish on a 2 GHz Intel Core Duo MacBook
> Pro, 2 GB is quite sufficient to run Firefox with 20+ tabs,

try Firefox -- especially Firefox rather than Camino -- with 200+ tabs,

> VMware
> Fusion with a 250 GB allocation,

Parallels allocating 1GB of RAM for WinXP SP2 virtual machine

> Virtue with 8 desktops, the Gimp
> (under X), Terminal with 30 windows open, Fire, NewsFire, VLC (not
> actively playing, but it'd be smooth sailing if it were) Mail,
> Addressbook, iCal, iPhoto, iTunes, with two SMB-mounted shares (from
> one of which iTunes is playing), an iPod, and an iPhone connected,
> under Mac OS X 10.4.10. Just going on what I'm doing right this
> very second.

and basically all that.  (i.e. X11, iChat+Chax, iCal, iTunes, Keynote,
Numbers, VLC, maybe Photoshop)  I've managed to elicit the spinwheel
on a 4GB MacBook Pro 2.4GHz C2D; the spinwheel is always unacceptable,
but particularly with new hardware.  I'm not doing Final Cut or
anything "crazy", just multitasking on a "workspace".

> As regards performing a memory install on a MacBook, it took me two
> clicks from http://support.apple.com/ to find:
>
>   http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303721
>
> (Complete with diagrams!)

ok, thought so.  I was being too lazy to google.

> It does actually pay to do one's own research when one is dealing
> with a competent vendor (I hope you're listening, dell.com, though
> I know you ain't).
>
> --
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> gr@eclipsed.net
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