Re: [amibroker] OT:4 GiB of RAM and MacBookPro, AmiBroker Email List Archive

On Feb 28, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Ara Kaloustian wrote:

My wife has a MacBookPro and it is a good machine. However very dissatisfied with Parallels (at least the early verion we had) and I removed it.

I imagine their software has improved significantly as all new software go through this phase, but their support was also atrocious and do not expect that to improve much. I suspect Apple had good reason not to support it.

I have been looking at the Lenovo (IBM) T61 ThinkPad. It seems to be of equal performance, perhaps more rugged with same weight and much better price.

A
----- Original Message -----
From: ohneclue
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: [amibroker] OT:4 GiB of RAM and MacBookPro

Ron,

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.

Judith

----- Original Message ----
From: Ronald Davis <xokie7@xxxxxxxxx>
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:02:43 AM
Subject: [amibroker] OT:4 GiB of RAM and MacBookPro

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.

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