I must say that I had trouble with the busy thing yesterday when I set up Genius in ITunes. I suppose this must be a very memory-intensive process, as it bogged my computer down for several minutes and I got the busy message intermittently during this whole time. On Mar 14, 2010, at 6:36 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
> 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. > 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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