http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/category/software-illustrated On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Martin Chiteri <martin.chiteri@gmail.com> wrote:
@Peter, I wish your friend was right, but he is not. Just ask him why modern computers come with beefier RAM amounts while there is a "physical ceiling" imposed by an older Mac book pro, O.k? It would make more economic sense to have a Gb of memory since it keeps machines cheaper if we were to think like him, isn't it?
As @Dennis mentioned, you need to have a processor with more than 32 bits to physically be able to access memories of higher than 3Gb on a computer hence the shift to 64 bit computing to modern machines and faster servers.
Martin.
On May 4, 2013 11:18 AM, "Dennis Kioko" <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
I would like to state that I own no Macbook.
Some OS do have address extensions, known as PAE, that enable 32 bit kernels to handle 4 GB of RAM.
Somehow related, Google does offer 1 Gbps of fiber, where your download speeds are usually limited by the write speed of your HDD.
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