kzez1986 Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 How much ram do I need to comfortable work? I have 256 MB RAM. Is it enough? Or, do you reccomend 512 MB to comfortable work? Thank you in advance for your help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5245-how-much-ram-do-i-need-to-comfortable-work/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrJägermeister Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 How much ram do I need to comfortable work? I have 256 MB RAM. Is it enough? Or, do you reccomend 512 MB to comfortable work? Thank you in advance for your help. 256 is just the minimum, 512MB or 1GB is better if you use different apps the same time. A 256MB module to upgrade your PC cost only ~20$. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5245-how-much-ram-do-i-need-to-comfortable-work/#findComment-33308 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue.mobile Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 How much ram do I need to comfortable work? I have 256 MB RAM. Is it enough? Or, do you reccomend 512 MB to comfortable work? Thank you in advance for your help. 256MB is not enough. Usually we have two slots for memory. Just add 512MB or 1GB memory to the empty slot. I added 512MB. So I have 768MB memory. It works fine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5245-how-much-ram-do-i-need-to-comfortable-work/#findComment-33878 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrunner Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 Rosetta requires more memory to fast, perhaps as much as 1GB minimum: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?s=...indpost&p=22023 http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050810-5195.htmlWhat does all of this mean for Mac users? First off, it means that anyone who plans to use Rosetta heavily will need plenty of memory. A while back, Transitive CEO Bob Wiederhold told the SJ Mercury News that translated apps will eat up about 25% more memory than their non-translated counterparts. I suspect that this number is an average, and not the result of a fixed code cache size that's allocated on a per-application basis. (Not that there's not a ceiling on the size of the translated code cache—there probably is—but I suspect that the code cache is kept as small as possible.) So make plans to order that new Intel-based Mac with a minimum of 1GB of main memory, and preferably 2GB or more. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5245-how-much-ram-do-i-need-to-comfortable-work/#findComment-33880 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhock Posted December 5, 2005 Share Posted December 5, 2005 i think 1 gigs is the minimum specs if you want to use ur mac for editing.. my adobe photoshop cannot running under 512 MB RAm.. i think 1 gig is perfect.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5245-how-much-ram-do-i-need-to-comfortable-work/#findComment-34294 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Nightmare Posted December 5, 2005 Share Posted December 5, 2005 I'm pretty comfy running 1GB on my system, though I would like to upgrade to 2GB just for the leap. You can accomplish pretty much any task with 1GB though, so that's my reccomendation. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5245-how-much-ram-do-i-need-to-comfortable-work/#findComment-34295 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted December 5, 2005 Share Posted December 5, 2005 A gig is cheap, just get a gig. If you can afford more, by all means buy it, but it isn't necessary. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5245-how-much-ram-do-i-need-to-comfortable-work/#findComment-34297 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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