I arrived home this evening and fired up my MBP 13", dropped a DVD in to rip (want to watch it on the iPad, so I rip them into an MP4 file) with WinX Ripper for Mac and started the ripping process. I did my accounting, started Lightroom 4 and imported a dozen new photos into it, edited them, output some JPEGs, annotated them with Photoshop CS5, posted them to DPR, did some other stuff. The rip is halfway done now. Activity Monitor has always had 40% green showing, even with Lr, Safari, WinX Ripper, Photoshop, and my text editor up, running and working...
I wouldn't worry too much about memory, really. The MBA13" does just fine with Lr4 and 4G RAM. And what's this silliness about "Apple being weird about telling the memory limits"? Just go to the Apple site and look up the technical specs for any system. EG: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs-17inch.html It's right there in Processor and Memory. All current MBPs support up to 8G. Older models, to to the Support tab, find out how to discover what model you have, then find the tech specs for that model. Easy. G On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:26 PM, David Mann <dmann...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 29, 2012, at 3:52 PM, steve harley wrote: > >> you can put 16 GB into all the 2010 & 2011 MacBook Pros (the Airs you cannot >> upgrade); Apple has a tradition of weird conservatism about stating maximum >> RAM > > I think mine's a 2007 model and I have 4GB in it. I did some reading not > long ago, apparently some people have managed to get 6GB working but that > seems to be the limit. > > The trouble is, I have a tendency to run both Safari and Firefox side by > side. If I start up my WinXP virtual machine on top of that then things > start to get difficult. I'd swim along nicely in 16GB. > > Other than that the machine runs amazingly well considering its age. All > I've had to do is replace the battery a couple of months ago. > > Dave > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
