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i just got an imac 24" 2.4ghz 1 gig ram, radian graphics card, mint for £630.
will this be able to run oolite with all bells & whistles? or will it need a bigger ram?
I could wait & find out, i suppose, but i couldn't wait!
cheers.

Yes.

A Quote from Ahruman:
"Yes."

°winks° so it "will" need a bigger RAM?

Yrol_Denjeah wrote:

A Quote from Ahruman:
"Yes."

°winks° so it "will" need a bigger RAM?

At last someone has found an ambiguity in one of Ahrumans extensive and detailed answers.

[very big grin]
cheers all.

Yodeebe wrote:

[very big grin]
cheers all.

You should really boost the RAM to 2GB minimum. 4GB preffered. Not a big investment. With 1GB You`ll see lots of memory swapping to disk.

Congrats on Your new Mac BTW.

goran wrote:

You should really boost the RAM to 2GB minimum. 4GB preffered.

you can't have too much RAM. when my mac mini had 1 GB, it was always full. without virtual memory i would have been lost. now it has 2 GB, and i still have to use virtual memory (like right now my swapfile is 2 GB (940MB used)), but occasionally memory usage drops to 75% or so.

i sure wish i could afford a mac pro...

harry747 wrote:

goran wrote:

You should really boost the RAM to 2GB minimum. 4GB preffered.

you can't have too much RAM. when my mac mini had 1 GB, it was always full. without virtual memory i would have been lost. now it has 2 GB, and i still have to use virtual memory (like right now my swapfile is 2 GB (940MB used)), but occasionally memory usage drops to 75% or so.

i sure wish i could afford a mac pro...

Swap file is always used. The thing You have to look for is number of page outs in Activity Monitor/System memory. As long as it stays 0, You have enough real memory.

harry747 wrote:

i sure wish i could afford a mac pro...

You and me both. I could probably swing it but I can't seem to justify the purchase right now. Maybe in another year or two if my circumstances change.

If I could afford a Mac Pro, I wouldn’t really want to buy one now – it hasn’t been updated for 469 days.

On the other hand, the new Mac Mini supports up to 8 GiB of memory. Mmm… memory.

My iMac is a lot like Yodeebe’s, maxed out to 4 GiB. Quite enough to play Oolite, but a bit small for development. Instruments in particular eats gigglebytes for breakfast.

Yodeebe - can you post the *exact* model of iMac that you have bought please. I have 2Gb of ram that I took out of my mid-2007 iMac which I could mail to you free if it was compatible.

Yodeebe has sent me his Mac spec and he has the mid-2007 iMac like me but since creating this post he has upgraded to 2Gb already.

I had my original 2x 1Gb strips left over from when I went up to 4Gb so they will not be any use to him due to the fact that the mid-2007 iMac has only two slots and his are filled.

I guess this leaves me asking the mods... am I allowed to post a "FREE - 2x 1Gb 667MHz PC-5300 RAM" post for United Kingdom mac owners? It is sitting in a cupboard unused so it would make sense to pass it on.

DanielCoffey wrote:

am I allowed to post a "FREE - 2x 1Gb 667MHz PC-5300 RAM" post for United Kingdom mac owners?

I remember paying about 300 dutch guilders per MB (140 euro) for my first memory upgrade for my Mac plus. 1/4 MB out and 1 Mb in. So effectively only 3/4 Mb extra memory. = 0.00075 Gb.

Eric Walch wrote:

I remember paying about 300 dutch guilders per MB (140 euro) for my first memory upgrade for my Mac plus. 1/4 MB out and 1 Mb in. So effectively only 3/4 Mb extra memory. = 0.00075 Gb.

Yeah memory sizes were quite small back in the day. I also remember when I got my first hard drive for my Atari ST, it was external, and was 100 MB. My old Atari Falcon030 (when I upgraded from the ST in about 1996) orginally had a 50MB internal drive, and I upgraded it to 10 GB. Virtually unlimited space for Atari files where the biggest program files are no more than 4 MB in size!!

DanielCoffey wrote:

I guess this leaves me asking the mods... am I allowed to post a "FREE - 2x 1Gb 667MHz PC-5300 RAM" post for United Kingdom mac owners? It is sitting in a cupboard unused so it would make sense to pass it on.

This memory has been taken by Pluisje who PM'd me. I am pleased we can reuse it.

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