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Corsair 16GB Memory $420.00 now in stock

so beside brag rights reason, what would i ever do with this much memory?
macbook pro 13" doesn't even play games well. or at all!
the way i see it if i don't use all that memory, then i just waste my money.
 
i'd rather buy SSD and go for 8GB $39 for that kind of money. 16GB ram is useless
 
Pentad said:
Just wondering how much the Patriot memory was?

Thanks,
-P
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460$....I got tired of waiting on newegg but i wouldve preferred corsair...there's no difference though just a preference. and cs5 uses all of it for all the haters in the thread.
 
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what do you work to use 16gB?

i have open:

skype
starcraft 2 on windows mode
mail
pulp
word
excel
iphoto
parallels desktop 2gb ram in coherence
mumble
keynote

and still use 7.4gb

what the hell do u make to invest 450 bucks D:
 
xpcker said:
what do you work to use 16gB?

i have open:

skype
starcraft 2 on windows mode
mail
pulp
word
excel
iphoto
parallels desktop 2gb ram in coherence
mumble
keynote

and still use 7.4gb

what the hell do u make to invest 450 bucks D:
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Pro apps. Video and Audio.

There are Audio apps/projects that require at least 24GB. But of course this is a pretty narrow range.

God help the fools who need these apps set up like this :D

Anyway, this is a major price reduction; cut in half! For those who have wanted this amount, it's been out of reach as the price was just way over the top. This price just squeaks into the doable range for regular working people who don't make a living with the Pro apps.
 
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T4R06 said:
i'd rather buy SSD and go for 8GB $39 for that kind of money. 16GB ram is useless
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:rolleyes:

Have you ever considered the world is bigger than just you?

I -like many other people- use their computers for more than surfing the web.

Frankly, an SSD is worthless to me. I have almost a TB of data that I use for work. I can't purchase a 1 TB SSD without spending a small fortune and 16GB of ram is much cheaper than a 1 TB SSD drive.

So before you make rash judgements about what is worthless or useful, try looking beyond yourself.
 
I'm probably going to hold on off this even though it's a huge improvement.

I 'theoretically' need this amount of RAM, but the truth is i haven't been running out with 8GB recently.

And that's what it boils down to: It's easy to know where your at with the disk space, as most of us are familiar with the experience of constantly running out of space to the point were it's a real nuisance.
 
I'm waiting for the prices to come down a little more and then will be purchasing 16GB

8GB is easily eaten up when I've got 3 or 4 VMWares running at the same time :rolleyes:
 
Adamantoise said:
Keep telling yourself that, but it doesn't change the fact that you're full of it.
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I don't understand where your part came into play, oh yeah just to come troll. Just because you can't fathom the use of 16gb doesn't mean I can't.

Good one Jackass.
 
Is not that the world is bigger than me. tomshardware have great comparisson of 8-16gb ram benchmarks.


The point is that, if you have a macbook pro, according to my perspective, buying it 16gb ram is worthless because the processor cant keep up to it.

YOU CAN BE THE PRO AS THE HELL U WANT (or call it as u like), but, for me, spending between 60 and 400 bucks just for waiting on 1 hour and 50 min of encoding its worthless. the program will work as fast as the processor and the arquitechture of the management of proc/ram can do.

if i had the bucks to have a xeon 8 core, 16gb justifies, otherwise, its just a troll conduct and who has it bigger thing.
 
xpcker said:
The point is that, if you have a macbook pro, according to my perspective, buying it 16gb ram is worthless because the processor cant keep up to it.
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That's plain wrong.
You are quite rude in your assumptions and you ignore some basic principles...
the 2011 MBPs are VERY fast and the only bottleneck (in its standard config) are the RAM and HDD.
I use it with 8gb with AfterEffects and Premiere, if I open and use them one at a time they are fast as they were on my Nehalem Mac Pro.
If I open both (and only use ONE at a time!) the mac becomes really slow and my swap increases up to 6gb...
IT IS CLEARLY A RAM LIMITATION, so having spent about 3000euro (mbp+ssd)...300eur for 16gb seems a VERY CHEAP upgrade!!!
;))
 
Damn. I spent way too much money at OWC then with their 16gb kit.

I'm using the latest MBP as a stop gap while I wait for the new Mac Pro. I use every bit of the 16 gb of ram. 15" 2.3ghz.
 
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