I don't ever remember you even mentioning MAC -- that was not in the original mix as I recall.
I think there's little to no question that Apple/MAC has some serious good things going for it and you've hit on part of it.
I think that is also what the newer Apple/MAC commercials have been saying for some time since last fall -- totally too funny and apparently totally correct.
I interpret WIKI to be saying that the newer models MacBookPro, when outfitted with 4GiB of installed RAM,
will really be able to process "MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF AMIBROKER STOCHK, RSI, CCI, ETC" faster than a similar Windows based machine.
Below is what Wiki says about newer models MacBookPro and their ability to FULLY UTILIZE 4GiB of installed RAM.>http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ MacBook_Pro.
I will appreciate hearing how others interpret what This WIKI article says. Ron D.
The current models support up to 4
GiB of RAM, though they ship with 2 GiB included. The memory front side bus (FSB) is still 667 MHz, while the processor's FSB is 800 MHz. The earliest models support a maximum of 2 GiB (two 1 GiB modules or one 2 GiB module). More recent Merom models based on the "Napa Refresh" chipset could have 4 GiB installed, but could only utilize a smaller and sometimes less efficient 3 GiB of RAM. It was inefficient if used as a combination of two different capacity slots (one 2 GB and one 1 GB).
[3] When two 2 GB memory modules are installed the "About This Mac" shows 4 GB, but on these models the Activity Monitor applications reports 3.0 GB as the total amount of physical RAM available. Newer
models can address and fully utilize 4 GiB of RAM without an issue.
Ron D.