Thank you all for your insights, much appreciated. It seems what we might consider common knowledge is not so common, even among our peers. On Saturday, May 4, 2013, Laban Mwangi wrote:
http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/category/software-illustrated
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Martin Chiteri <martin.chiteri@gmail.com<javascript:;>> 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 <javascript:;>> 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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