@Martin before the faiba flogging can begin allow me to explain myself. Faced with a laptop, which is limited in the mods you can perform on it, which is the best vale for your money/effort? A core i7 processor will always be better than a duo-core for obvious reasons but if you want better computing for your laptop which is better; a core i7 processor with 512mb of ram or a duocore with 8gb of ram? which is likely to get your work done faster? the IO speeds on the harddisk will cause the core i7 machine to crawl while the 8gb RAM equipped machine will chew through the computing comfortably. This is what I meant. Holding all other things constant, increasing RAM will boost perfomance without the need to pump up processing power. A word document is unlikely to need 4 cores to process a word but more ram allows more docuents concurrently opened? What is processing anyway? On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Riyaz Bachani <riyaz.bachani@ke.wananchi.com
wrote:
Practical help - I had a similar model Macbook 15-inch - 2005/2006 - went from 1gb RAM to 3gb and the computer is a whole new beast.
With newer OSes and multiple applications, you do need at least 2 gb these days - when that computer shipped in 2007 it ran fine, but newer OS versions and newer applications are more RAM hungry (you can always check in Activity Monitor what RAM is doing).
Reinstalling OS X also significantly improved performance (before the RAM upgrade)
R
----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Karunyu" <pkarunyu@gmail.com> To: "Skunkworks forum" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Sent: Friday, May 3, 2013 7:08:46 PM Subject: [Skunkworks] Of processors, RAM, and 64bit vs 32bit Operating Systems
So I am having this argument of a lifetime with a respected, local techie journalist:
His argument: That increasing the RAM of a computer does not necessarily increase its speed or responsiveness.
If you add more RAM, the processor speed wont change in any way, you will only have huge jobs stored on the RAM (Because of its large capacity) but the processing time will be the same, hence the computer wont be fast enough as you would expect.
My argument That he is nuts and should be stripped of the respected techie journalist tag. I hold that more RAM will definitely result into some speed improvement.
The source of the argument: An Apple MacBook (13-inch, Late 2007) , with a 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo , and currently with 1GB DDR 2 PC2-5300 RAM. The laptop is running Mac OS X 10.5.
Now, he says that upgrading this machine to 4GB is a waste of money, since there will be no change in the speed of the laptop, because, that processor can only handle 1GB, the factory installed RAM.
Can a more learned skunk explain the folly of my/his argument. _______________________________________________ skunkworks mailing list skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke ------------ List info, subscribe/unsubscribe http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------
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