[OSX-Users] Re: RAM for a macbook

[Steve Harris]

On 2010-08-23, at 16:33, Philip Boulain wrote:

> On 23/08/2010 03:08, Hugh Glaser wrote:
>> One of the things that has changed over the last few years is how long
>> machines last. Used to be a couple of years, but a machine like yours, that
>> was bought a year or two (or more?) ago, will still be good for maybe 3 or 4
>> more years, unless you are doing fancy graphics processing (or similar) on
>> it.
> 
> Bah, my main desktop machine dates back to 2002 or so. Since processors hit the one GHz mark and memory the 1GB, everything since has been fluff to get squandered, and fuel for the ravenous, unending hunger of the high-end gaming world.
> 
> There's no reason a MacBook Pro shouldn't be a perfectly functional machine for average use eight years from now unless Apple get all planned obsolescence about OS upgrades (since the Mac software world seems to very agressively drop support for non-bleeding-edge OS versions) or you can't be seen dead without the latest fashionable case redesign. ;)

I guess it depends what you're doing.

My previous MacBook Pro was limited to 2GB of RAM, that's really not enough to run Lightroom with 18MP photos, even though they've been doing good work to improve Lightroom's efficiency. Even with 4GB it swaps everything else out, which makes switching between apps slow.

- Steve