2 Apr
2006
2 Apr
'06
11:16 p.m.
Gary Sparkes wrote:
Yea, as long as you load that thing down with memory
and run 10.3 (10.4 is
okay, but you'll be better off with 10.3 due to spotlight's indexing in 10.4).
512MB being the minimum of 'decent' here
When I read stuff like this I wonder what the heck happened. The
original Mac was a marvel of cramming everything graphical and useful
into a 64KB ROM -- I know it's 22 years later, but with OSX requiring a
minimum of 512MB RAM for "minimum of 'decent'", I just don't get it.
We
can bash Windows all we want, but as of today WinXP runs happily in
192MB, with 384MB being a break-even point for most people...
I've heard explanations from the uneducated saying "it's BSD causing the
bloat" but that's just retarded... I run BSD on my 64MB Pentium and it's
quite the speedy weasel. I don't understand why OSX needs 512MB as a
minimum.
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