Well then the whole thread is pointless, its like asking "is a 3TB hard drive too much"... The answer is NO if you plan on using it all, and YES if you only plan to use 25% of it.
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Who says 16GB is to much?
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Well then the whole thread is pointless, its like asking "is a 3TB hard drive too much"... The answer is NO if you plan on using it all, and YES if you only plan to use 25% of it.
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So what? If someone can afford it, wants it, does it, what's the big deal?
It only cost me about $235 for my 16GB of RAM in my iMac. It is well worth it to me because I know that I will probably never ever run out of RAM while working. As I am typing this, I have the following running:
Safari
iTunes
Skype
Numbers
Pages
Toast 9 - rendering a DVD and using all 8 cores of my 2.93 i7
Out of all that, I still have 12GB RAM available which includes free and inactive RAM. I still have tons of RAM and about 50% of my CPU cycles still available to do more.
No big whoop.
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Some times this happens... But it's rare that I manage to get page-outs... usually it's because of a program acting up and leaking memory (which, on second thought, can be a bit easy given my primary line of work - a software developer 😛). Sometimes it's good to have that buffer of extra memory in those cases cause then you can kill it much more easily before it uses up all your memory.
