32GIGABYTES of system RAM in a G5!
That's right, yours for the princely sum of 56,000USD plus the cost of a powermac.
See the link from our good friends at Crucial
Actually, you need slightly faster DDR for the PMG5, but I trust it's comming down the pipe.
$7000 dollars a piece! EEEK.
Not quite a cost effective substitute for RAID, yet.
See the link from our good friends at Crucial
Actually, you need slightly faster DDR for the PMG5, but I trust it's comming down the pipe.
$7000 dollars a piece! EEEK.
Not quite a cost effective substitute for RAID, yet.
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coming soon: the ATI Infinity with 4GB of VRAM and an extra 4GB for texture memory
let 1000 windows bloom on that baby...
128kb ought to be enough for anybody....sheesh
When you guys are old farts, I guarantee your kids will say "HOW much for a lousy 32 Gigs of RAM? Hey, our X-Pods have 4 TB of RAM and they're only $29 at World-Mart!"
Originally posted by Aquatic
NOW maybe they'll add RAM Disk back in to OS X!
It's already possible via the command line or ramBunctious.
I looked on Apple for RAM specs and prices for the heck of it. According to them, they don't sell 1 gig chips for the Rev. A 12" Powerbooks. Um... okay. Its the same exact kind of RAM for the Rev. B models.
I remember when 1 gig RAM chips were $800 and that was only earlier this year.
Originally posted by Wrong Robot
128kb ought to be enough for anybody....sheesh
Actually, Bill Gates' quote was "640kb ought to be enough for anybody"
Originally posted by curiousuburb
how about using it as VRAM ?
coming soon: the ATI Infinity with 4GB of VRAM and an extra 4GB for texture memory
let 1000 windows bloom on that baby...
Those folks would be using a Silicon Graphics Onyx 2 supercomputer with that kind of texture memory specs. The boxes are beasts...
Originally posted by Aquatic
NOW maybe they'll add RAM Disk back in to OS X!
What the hell is RAM disk, and why do you still need it in OS X? The OS does that automatically, no?
Originally posted by Voxapps
When you guys are old farts, I guarantee your kids will say "HOW much for a lousy 32 Gigs of RAM? Hey, our X-Pods have 4 TB of RAM and they're only $29 at World-Mart!"
More likely, my children will be cloned and born in exowombs on a space habitat and I will be the old codger in the corner who mumbles about when computers used silicon transistors instead of quantum gates and light based CPUs.
"Back in my day, we had pointers. Real men programmed with pointers, wimp flunkies programmed in Java or .Net." That's what I'll say. Crap, I turn 30 in 3 months.
Originally posted by Placebo
What the hell is RAM disk, and why do you still need it in OS X? The OS does that automatically, no?
OSX has a rather good virtual memory system, so yes, it should mostly be able to do everything RAM disk did. However, I suppose a RAM disk might be nice if someone wanted to explicitly make sure that something was loaded into RAM and didn't leave. Of course VM would do this effectively, so you really wouldn't need it so long as you didn't use alot of other apps. For all intents and purposes, if you keep using an app, VM obviously won't swap the app contents out of main memory.
Originally posted by curiousuburb
Actually, Bill Gates' quote was "640kb ought to be enough for anybody"
Actually, good old Bill never said that.
It's an urban myth.
I kid you not.
http://www.urbanlegends.com/celebrit...es_memory.html
Originally posted by guest
That's actually pretty cheap. I remember when 64 MB sticks cost 5 grand each. It was a serious investment to put 256 MB in your mac. I'm sure when these sticks become affordable, we'll be bitching about the price on 1 TB sticks.
Exactly. I long for that day.