it does except for 1. when safary decides to hickup and 2, you try and mark 4000 messages as read at once. don't do that. lol. On Mar 14, 2010, at 3:02 PM, Rich Ring wrote:
> But I think ZI'd have to have a Mac Book Pro in order to have 8 gigs of ram. > Half the reason I wanted to get into the Mac world was that OSX is supposed > to use memory more efficiently. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bryan Smart" <bryansm...@bryansmart.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 2:17 PM > Subject: RE: safari busy, busy, busy > > > That's true as long as you're only running desktop apps. > > If you're using virtual machines, for example, 8GB will be better. A Windows > 7 VM needs 3GB of memory to run with maximum performance, for example, and, > with 4GB, that wouldn't leave you much for OSX. You can always run your > virtual machines with less memory, and start fewer apps in them, but you'll > hurt performance. > > 8GB is only about $350 right now in the US. It isn't that serious of a > purchase if you do serious computing. > > Bryan > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Howell > Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 6:57 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: safari busy, busy, busy > > Four gigs is more than sufficient and any additional benefits from > installing more ram will not justify the expense of the ram. > I have four gigs and I run a lot of stuff at once with no noticeable hit on > performance. > > On Mar 13, 2010, at 6:45 PM, Kimberly thurman wrote: > >> Happens to me a lot and I'm using a 13 inch Macbook Pro. It only has 2 >> gigs of ram and I'm thinking that is causing some of my problems. I get >> the busy stuff when I have multiple aps open. >> >> This leads me to a question of my own. I see that it is possible to >> upgrade ram. My husband could do this for me, but how much ram is enough? >> I read that I could put up to 8 gigs of ram in this thing. Is that over >> kill? Would 4 gigs be enough? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Kim >> On Mar 13, 2010, at 6:30 PM, Bryan Smart wrote: >> >>> I bet you have a Mac Mini without a monitor. >>> >>> Bryan >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>> [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Carolyn >>> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 3:31 PM >>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>> Subject: safari busy, busy, busy >>> >>> Hi: >>> I suppose this has already come up on list, but I'm wondering if others >>> are frustrated by VO continuously getting stuck on and repeating "busy," >>> Is there a way to stop that from happening? And Would this be considered >>> a bug to report to Apple. Sorry if this is old to some of you, but it's >>> new to me as I use the Mac more. >>> TIA >>> >>> Carolyn :)ch >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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