To 16Gb or to not 16Gb

[Jaimi]

I realise that similar questions to this have been asked before, however I would greatly appreciate some knowledgable input into my question.

My hardware
Early 2011 15.4" i7 2.2Ghz MBP 8Gb Ram 256SSD + 750HDD (stock) with the Radeon 6750 1Gb and an external superdrive connnected by USB.

Task
Currently digitising my entire DVD and Blu Ray catalogue into iTunes.
Use - MDRP for the DVD - MP4
Handbrake - for the AVI to MP4
Identify for MP4 to labelled M4V

Whilst these tasks are being performed I am also using my MBP for my work
Word / Pages
Email
Etc

My question is, whilst there is some slow down in the system I am not sure if additional memory will make much of a difference? Using iStat app I can see my CPU and my RAM is pretty much working full on. So is it worth the additional RAM? RAM is now cheap, crucial sells 16Gb for my system at £50, but if I will see no difference then why spend the extra £50. If however I am likely to see some improvement then I will gladly spend it.

Any thoughts or questions on my set up or my conversion etc, please reply.

Thanks

I have the exact same computer as you do, with the exact drives. I upgraded to 16GB and would not go back. But then, I regularly run applications that eat up that much memory - specifically, I run Vmware fusion with an 8GB Windows VM, and I also run rendering software that can eat up a ton of memory. RAM is cheap now, so might as well do it.

 

[gngan]

It is cheap so you may as well do it.

Worst advise ever.

Cheap = buy it? Your house will be full of ****.

 

[Jaimi]

Worst advise ever.

Cheap = buy it? Your house will be full of ****.

Perhaps you didn't read where I said it was useful to me. Perhaps it will be useful to him, he thinks perhaps it will. Then I suppose it's not **** then. But thanks for the rude remarks. Or not.

 

[bogatyr]

Worst advise ever.

Cheap = buy it? Your house will be full of ****.

Cheap + considering it + has benefits = buy it. Seemed fairly evident in his post that this was his intention.

 

[throAU]

Jesus why are some of you so daft?

Page-outs : Need ram
No page-outs: no need ram

it's that simple.

It's actually not quite that simple.

Some page outs = don't necessarily NEED ram.

But yes, 16 is so cheap now that if you are going to upgrade from less than 8, it is a no-brainer - spend the extra 40 bucks and forget about RAM problems for a couple of years.


If you're on 8 (as I am), then 16 will be good for VMware or parallels in particular, DVD encoding = no real difference...

 

[Hexley]

Worst advise ever.

Cheap = buy it? Your house will be full of ****.

Buying **** is bad advice. 16GB aint ****.