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Re: [PLUG] OT: Mac OS X question
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- From: TuskenTower <tuskentower@gmail.com>
- To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
- Subject: Re: [PLUG] OT: Mac OS X question
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:24:13 -0400
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On 10/10/07, James Fiore <jfiore@absurgery.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, zuzu wrote:
> > ...try Firefox -- especially Firefox rather than Camino -- with 200+
> > tabs...
>
> > ...my experience has been, as I attempted to illustrate, that just
> > doing web browsing, email, IM, and a few "office apps" on top of that
> > will easily use 4GB of RAM. nothing "out of the ordinary"...
>
>
> 200+ tabs in Firefox is "nothing out of the ordinary"? No wonder you need
> 4GB of RAM. I'm not trying to be belligerent. I'm just genuinely curious how
> you work with that many tabs open and why? Are these news articles? --
> the way you do research? What do you do with that many tabs? Does
> anyone else work with anywhere near that many tabs?
If he's anything like me, its all those newegg.com tabs. You know,
the naked hardware pictures and awesome reviews (I usually search for
Linux to speed things up).
On a more helpful note, 1GB is not enough. 1.5GB is just enough (on
my Al G4) to not have your swap exceed 64MB ("ls -lh /var/vm" if you
want to see your swap cache files). The Santa Rosa MacBook Pos come
with 2GB by default and if you get an EDU discount, they are at a good
price point.
Just wait till the end of the month so you can get 10.5 installed by
default. If you can, wait for the MacBook update (I am).
HTH
Amul
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