2 GB of Memory...Why?

[johnnymk]

Would someone explain why anyone needs this much memory?

[Skidude]

Would someone explain why anyone needs this much memory?

Vista? Seriously, vista w/1GB is SLOW. 2GB and it's much better.

[shocky123]

I like to multitask, its fun to play a game in the background whenever my slow hard drives have to load up a FEAR map or something, having 2GB makes this possible, 1GB just hit the hard drives even more.
2GB is reasonable anymore, 1GB is salvagable..

[Airencracken]

I use it for intense photo editing and stuff like autostitch. Not to mention gaming.

[Thesifer]

Would someone explain why anyone needs this much memory?

a Lot of Servers usually use 4gb or more.

[seqiro]

I use it for photo editing and Parallels/VMware.

[rajatQ2]

I use it for photo editing and Parallels/VMware.


One more vote for VMware.

I have 2gb in my laptop, and can work from home and run any old OS i want to test code on. I only carry one laptop.

[redcolours]

cuz for computers, you can never have enough memory.

[Thesifer]

I always like Bill Gates when these come up, "You will never need more then 640kb of memory!"

[Kevster]

I regularly multitask multiple applications and often find myself using more than 1GB.

[ShawnLee]

Why? Because you can. I mean, why anything?
I NEED to live in a small plot of land with enough dirt for a garden to feed myself. I "need" so much more.
I'm all for 2GB+ RAM.

[DarkFury]

Would someone explain why anyone needs this much memory?
Depending on the application, the additional memory helps decrease the load time and in some gaming applications... the "lag" time between pulling in fresh data and processing it. :thumb:

2GB is truly a "sweet spot" in Win XP. :D

[Prngr44]

I always like Bill Gates when these come up, "You will never need more then 640kb of memory!"

Or me personally when I paid $250 for a 450MB hard drive to be installed.

"You'll never fill that thing up!"

[bachviet]

Multi-tasking

[Airencracken]

I've been thinking about bumping it up to 4gb but I think a memory upgrade will wait until I change motherboards or regular old DDR memory goes down in price.

[eSDee]

In Final Cut Pro on the Mac, a bunch of RAM is necessary especially when cutting HD video. A lot of hardcore editors feel that the 4 gig limitation of FCP is way too little. Hopefully with the new release (this weekend maybe) it will up the amount of RAM that can be utilitized.

[Prngr44]

I was gonna say... around here we have lots of systems with 16GB of RAM.

[ohukuo]

2GB for multi-tasking. You can never have enough memory.

[Maarchk]

Depending on the application, the additional memory helps decrease the load time and in some gaming applications... the "lag" time between pulling in fresh data and processing it. :thumb:

2GB is truly a "sweet spot" in Win XP. :D

Exactly. If you run an OS before XP and you dont do a bunch of stuff at once or are not working intensely, such as gaming, you dont really need it. But if you are working on graphics, you play a game, or you are doing something semi-intense, and running other applications at the same time... such as i'm burning a cd, while working on my website and listening to music... If i didn't have 2gb, then i would either
A. have skips in the cd :(
B. Have skips in the music. :(or
C. My website would have skips? Naw, but i didn't have a good C...

So yes, its reasonable for a lot of got apex members because we are all nerds who use our computers to do a ton of things, and we multi-task a lot so the system needs to hold lots of information for us at the same time.
If you are checking your email, surfing the web, writing a paper, and listening to music, you probably need 512 to a gig.
If you push beyond that, ya know look for your weak point and improve it. Memory... HD... graphics card...

Hope that helps.

[TruckStuff]

In Final Cut Pro on the Mac, a bunch of RAM is necessary especially when cutting HD video. A lot of hardcore editors feel that the 4 gig limitation of FCP is way too little. Hopefully with the new release (this weekend maybe) it will up the amount of RAM that can be utilitized. Not since they delayed Leopard this week. FCP is supposed to be heavily dependent on the CoreAnimation features of Leopard, so no one is sure what's going to happen at NAB next week.

[Jah Rulez]

Because Stone Cold says so?;)

[Markel]

Faster is better. More is better. Bigger (sometimes) is better.

Of course, the real reason is: BLOATWARE!!!!