[George W. Bush]

BTW, my Mac Pro memory shopping quest has come to an end. OWC's Apple Certified FBDIMMs in the 2x2GB package, made by Netlist, dropped to $399. I finally placed an order and should have it on Wednesday. I hope.

Hopefully, 7GB of RAM will make everything shiny smooth.

[Uri’el-2012]

BTW, my Mac Pro memory shopping quest has come to an end. OWC's Apple Certified FBDIMMs in the 2x2GB package, made by Netlist, dropped to $399. I finally placed an order and should have it on Wednesday. I hope.

Hopefully, 7GB of RAM will make everything shiny smooth.

Mine started running well with 5G of ram.

Look into a program called iFreemem, it will clean up all unused memory.

[AZLiberty]

I gave a friend's computer a multibillion dollar upgrade today. Here's how I figure it.

In 1974, when I was a grad student at MIT, Digital Equipment Corporation gave MIT a very generous gift of RAM. The gift was 2 megabytes, then valued at $1M, and considered a major upgrade to a timesharing system that was supporting 70 simultaneous users.

My friend's upgrade today was 2 gigabytes, or a thousand times as big, so in 1974 it would have been worth at least a billion dollars. Given that the new memory is probably at least 100 times as fast, draws about a millionth the power, and is about 1 million times as reliable, I'd say I can up the value to at least several billion dollars.

Not to mention, these are 1974 dollars we're talking about, so I think I'm safe to say that in 2007 dollars (and 1974 technology) I gave my friend a $10B upgrade today, for DIMMs that cost her less than $100.

[Uri’el-2012]

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.