Re: MacBook vs.???

Peter De Berdt
2007-07-03T12:01:02Z

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


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