will a gig ram help a pb 550 in X
Hey all, just a quick question.
I just brought my ti 550 (512 ram) at work into the world of jag. While I am so happy to be rid on the horrors of 9, i am noticing its kinda slow (im used to running jag on a 933 at home) and i get the spinning beach ball of doom semi-often. For reg web stuff and such its fine, but when im going full speed with photoshop(print quality files), illustrator, and dreamweaver through out the day, it chugs a bit, esp. switching btween apps. Havent done a final cut session yet, but im sure that will run better than the adobe appz. My question is, if i up it to a gig of ram how much improvement will i see. I mean i know what more ram will do to photoshop and such, but how much will it affect my over all osx enviorment
I just brought my ti 550 (512 ram) at work into the world of jag. While I am so happy to be rid on the horrors of 9, i am noticing its kinda slow (im used to running jag on a 933 at home) and i get the spinning beach ball of doom semi-often. For reg web stuff and such its fine, but when im going full speed with photoshop(print quality files), illustrator, and dreamweaver through out the day, it chugs a bit, esp. switching btween apps. Havent done a final cut session yet, but im sure that will run better than the adobe appz. My question is, if i up it to a gig of ram how much improvement will i see. I mean i know what more ram will do to photoshop and such, but how much will it affect my over all osx enviorment
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I currently have a 500Mhz PBG4 with 512. I would go to 768, (currently 2x 256) but I'm getting a new machine pretty soon, so to hell with that.
<strong>I doubt it will help that much. I doubt the bottle neck on that system is the memory. If your running with free RAM now, having still yet more free RAM wont to crap for you.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Ok stupid question, where can i see in osx how much mem apps are using? With the whore that photoshop is i bet just having it open uses 512
Oh and i can afford how ever much i tell my company i'm buying but i dont want to wast money on ram for no reason, I could just push for a new machine instead
[ 11-19-2002: Message edited by: Ti Fighter ]
[ 11-19-2002: Message edited by: Ti Fighter ]</p>
so with ichat, mail, photoshop (w/ 150 dpi jpeg loaded), dreamweaver, ie, acrobat, textedit, and classic running word 98 (don't ask) im looking at 414megs used 98megs free. In this state if i go and try to open a 300 dpi 52 meg psd i run out of ram immediately before it even opens , and when i cancel opening the file, avalible ram stays at 8.93m free. So all in all I need more ram, or a 1.25 dual, hope my boss is in a good mood tomorrow
[ 11-19-2002: Message edited by: Paul ]</p>
slow at times...(10.2.2 is a lot better than
10.1.5)
yup ram helps..so add in as much as you can
it will never feel as snappy as win2k simply
beacuse the aqua layer has way too much overhead
at this point.(bmp vs vector displays)
as the patches come & they clean it up
it will speed up....meanwhile adding ram
and /or switching to a higher cpu are your only
options at this point
also generally laptops are not as zippy as
desktop (hdd /bus speed etc etc)
so you will see the beachball/hourglass regardless
of osx or win2k if using a laptop
hope that helps