Re: MacBook vs.???

CPerry
2007-07-03T12:56:59Z

I am using a MacBook Pro with 1GB of RAM in it, and it works just fine
for Rails development. In fact, I often have Photoshop CS3, TextMate,
Terminal, iTunes, Adium, Vienna, and Cyberduck all going at the same
time. Along with my browser and email client. It never seems to miss a
beat for me. Could it use 2GB+? Sure, it could, but the 1GB gets along
just fine for me. I would think that it would be the same for the
standard MacBook.

--Cory

On Jul 3, 8:01 am, Peter De Berdt
<peter.de.be...-LPO8gxj9N8aZIoH1IeqzKA@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On 03 Jul 2007, at 13:37, Wayne Molina wrote:
>
> > Not a Mac user (yet.. it''s on the buy list as soon as I have
the
> > money)
> > but 1GB of RAM should be *plenty* for Rails development.  On my WinXP
> > laptop I ran Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 Express, Oracle
> > express, MySQL, Adobe Photoshop and Office 2k3 on 1GB of RAM and it
> > never gave me any problems at all; you should be fine with 1GB.
>
> If you ran all of these together, memory swapping galore :-)
>
> But 1 GB of RAM on a MacBook is more than sufficient for pure Rails
> programming: TextMate, iTerm/Terminal, Safari, Firefox
> If you have plenty of other apps open all the time (like I have) such
> as Photoshop (big memory eater), OpenOffice (another one), Mail,
> Adium, iCal, iTunes, Vienna, ... then 1 GB of RAM will still do, but
> swapping occurs and spoiled as I am, I hate the waiting between app
> switches.
>
> Simply put: the more RAM, the more applications you can run at the
> same time without losing speed. I always put in the maximum amount of
> RAM possible.
>
> Best regards
>
> Peter De Berdt