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snipersix

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As you can tell from the topic, my question is up to how much ram does leopard support. Like wats its ram limit.
 
waterskier2007 said:
haha that has to be insane, how could you ever get that much
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Ten years ago I would have said the same thing about 32 GB. I can remember having computers with less than 1/500 of what my current computer has. My current computer has 2 GB of memory, but I can remember drooling over the idea of getting 4MB. That's the same leap as from 32 GB to 16 TB.

In ten years we'll be lamenting the fact that certain computers only support 16 TB.
 
I doubt it. At the consumer level, things are already starting to plateau out. What will people need to do with their individual computers that will require 16 TB of RAM? Unless hard disks are abandoned and everything becomes stored in RAM (which would have to be non-volatile), I think only servers and other big-iron will have that much active memory.
 
Riemann Zeta said:
I doubt it. At the consumer level, things are already starting to plateau out. What will people need to do with their individual computers that will require 16 TB of RAM? Unless hard disks are abandoned and everything becomes stored in RAM (which would have to be non-volatile), I think only servers and other big-iron will have that much active memory.
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Once everyone has that amount of memory available, the programmers will find something to fill it. Believe me. There are lots of possibilities.

Instant audio translation from any language to any other language? Real-time 3-D renderings based on stereoscopic camcorders? Who knows?
 
wordmunger said:
Once everyone has that amount of memory available, the programmers will find something to fill it. Believe me. There are lots of possibilities.

Instant audio translation from any language to any other language? Real-time 3-D renderings based on stereoscopic camcorders? Who knows?
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Exactly, if it's there people will capitalise on it, especially if it's cheap.
 
More aggressive precaching like in Windows Vista would be nice (What people mistake as Vista being a 'memory hog' is actually it making good use of available unused ram, look up Super Fetch technologyin vista). Using that extra 8gb of ram to make sure photoshop will load instantly ahead of time is a good idea imo.
 
what you also have to remember as new oses come out, more memory is required by default

For Example Min requirements for smooth operation
Win 95 128mb fine
Win 98 around same
Win 2000 256MB
Win XP 512MB
Win Vista 1GB - Min stock install idles at 1.2GB!
Leopard - 1GB (i had 50mb free with just safari open when i had 1gb)

Also it will also mean more programs will just be badly coded and have serve memory leaks that will use a lot of ram.

Im not Saying Firefox Is badly coded, but they did have some big memory leaks in FF2 which lot of people moaned at.
like 200MB On 2 Tabs

if you had say 10 apps open that had simlar problems 10x200mb is roughly 2GB Wasted
 
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