That is Bill Gates speaking.![]()
He never actually said that...
But anyway, not necessarily. It comes down to the chipset, and whether or not it supports memory chips of 16-Gbit density or not. There are other factors as well.
That is Bill Gates speaking.![]()
Editing multiple streams of audio, using RAM hungry virtual instruments/processors will quickly swamp 4Gs of RAM.
For video applications, I'm sure it's even more demanding.
1080p encoding and processing, tens of safari tabs open, running 30 programs at once, crunching big amounts of data via matlab, and doing all of that simultaneously because I want to.
this is the dumbest thing i've read today. you want to do all of things AT ONCE because you want to?![]()
I currently have 10 other programs sitting idle in the background doing nothing. if I had 32GB of ram I'd just leave everything open while letting a video do it's thing while photoshopping.
Ahh, it is dumb that someone uses a computer for his/her work? Can you explain that?this is the dumbest thing i've read today. you want to do all of things AT ONCE because you want to?![]()
this is the dumbest thing i've read today. you want to do all of things AT ONCE because you want to?![]()
No, not at all. I worked with x264 (a H.264 encoder, target: 1080p) and with Photoshop and other tools at the same time (Quad-Core Sandy Bridge CPU, 8 GB RAM). No problem. So what you say is probably not your own experience.its like not all of a sudden 32gb of ram will take away the fact that video rendering will generally try to max out your cpu usage. ram will speed it up, but it will still adversely affect photoshop performance *at the same time*.
Ahh, it is dumb that someone uses a computer for his/her work? Can you explain that?
That isn't work. That's just someone doing really dumb and inefficient things on the computer just for the sake of it. with that sort of idiotic workflow, he'd need WAY more than 32gb of ram. even so, the guy is a student anyway so i highly doubt its applicable to actual work.
2011 2.2 and 2.3 quads support 32
Best MacBook everretina who?
You're going to be able to get a solid 7 years+ out of that system if you want
(Yes, I know apple will cut off support after 4-5 years)
When people ask why I need so much RAM, I just answer honestly: "Because I'm a badass."
I just upgraded my 2011 quad MBP to 16gb of ram and now I find myself wanting 32gb (which is how I found this thread.) I'm a consultant and like having my whole farm on my MBP because there's no telling where I'll be from day to day.
Currently, I'm running the following in Parallels: FreeNAS, Windows Core for Active Directory, SharePoint Server, 2 Clustered SQL Servers, Windows 7 Workstation, ESXi/vSphere 5 with all the components (vCenter Server, etc), NetApp OS Simulator, and another Win2k8 Core Domain Controller.
Needless to say, I can only run a portion of these at any time with my piddley 16gb of ram![]()