New iMac RAM choices

[Vapor Trail]

Anyone really concerned about being limited with 8 GB of RAM?

I'm a PC guy by experience and have never experience bottleneck issues with my recent machines (vista, 7) that have had up to 8 GB of RAM. In fact, I barely tap into that resource.

Is mac OS a RAM hog? I ordered my iMac with 8 GB with hardly a concern, but it seems a lot of forum users are throwing money in to max-out RAM. On my windows machine, frankly it'd be a waste of money.

Thanks.

 

[burninggarlic]

If you are satisfied with the 8 gb ram on your Windows PC, 8 GB ram on Mac OS X will pleasure you much more. More ram on Mac for you can make you feel the God.

 

[Mac2133]

OS X will pleasure you

Huh?!!!

 

[Vapor Trail]

C'mon folks, any benchmarks out there doing a head-to-head comparison of 8 vs 16 GB RAM on otherwise same spec iMacs?

 

[phoenixsan]

Maybe....

this is not a benchmark, but can be useful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4IuYCaKOfY

 

[msg362]

C'mon folks, any benchmarks out there doing a head-to-head comparison of 8 vs 16 GB RAM on otherwise same spec iMacs?

Surely it depends what you want to do? I'm editing in Premiere Pro, so I've gone for both the i7 3.4 and the 680MX, yes it is more, but on a machine costing around £2000 it's fairly marginal and I hope this iMac will last at least 4 years, so it works out at just a few £ per year extra. Ive got 8 GB RAM from Apple and have ordered an extra 16GB from Crucial, so 24 Gb in total.