Posted on 11/19/2007 3:13:22 PM PST by Swordmaker
A clever new Apple dual-banner campaign, "Give Up On Vista," was spotted by MacDailyNews readers today on CNET (<— click and you might see it, too) and perhaps other Websites as well:
Video via YouTube (please forgive the quality at the beginning - YouTube, ya know - it gets better later when it's necessary):
The iMac ran fine on 1 GB with the normal apps running. It's real quick after adding another 2 GB though, even with several hungry apps running. I'll probably go up to four when I get heavy into video editing and running XP in the VM for development.
Ah, same as me — those VMs really eat up the memory. I’ll also probably get Vista to run on relatively minimal memory just for testing when things get serious. Between the two I’ll be using probably 2.5 of my 4 GB (what I’ll have then).
Hopefully my memory needs won’t outgrow the 4 GB limit on the iMac. I can’t really justify a Pro. As it is, I waited to get an iMac until it could support 4 GB.
Yeah, it does, a little. I’m also running VMware, using a 1G machine, with no problems. With no explanation of what you were running earlier, I thought 5G was a little much.
We are now scaling our personal machines,
using the algorithms that I used 25 years ago
when I was an MTS at Bell Labs.
It’s pretty amazing, isn’t it?
I currently have more computing power on my desk Todays computing stands on the shoulders of the giants of the past. OBTW I "Protein Fold" w/ SMP about 3000 points a day and Some things change but the overarching concepts do not.
than we had in our BL data center 25 years ago.
it does not affect any process on my Mac as it is "niced"
Are you Protein Folding ?http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1906532/posts
There is a SMP folding client for OS X
it runs as "nice" so it does not interfere with any process.It does not take much memory only leftover cycles.
Thanks, swordmaker.
In 1977, an Atari 2600 video game cartridge contained 2K (bytes) of code, which would run on a system with 128 bytes of RAM and a processor running about 0.3-0.5 MIPS, and display hardware which couldn't even generate vertical sync unless the processor turned the vertical-sync latch on for two scan lines out of every 262.
In 2007, video games have grown in size and RAM requirements over a million-fold, and in speed requirements over ten-thousand-fold. Unfortunately, the "fun" level hasn't grown so much.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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