Yeah I've heard that, too. And I'd believe it if it weren't for the speed of the thing and the jaw drops from the techs at the genius bar when they get to play on it on the couple of occasions I've taken it in. Actually, I had an IT guy help me get it rigged to run. I SERIOUSLY don't have time or patience to wait around for my computer to do its work while I'm doing mine. The ram has made a huge difference. It's not for everybody but I'm on the thing for easily 4-6 hours a day every day and waiting around for a computer to catch up with me is no way to spend time. Lea you can not say more than you see ~hdt On Oct 27, 2010, at 1:57 PM, Trevor Cunningham <trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Maybe I was told incorrectly, but piling on RAM will never make your computer run faster than your processor can. I just can't imagine what marginal benefit you might have gotten after, say, 8 gigs...especially with still pictures. My brother-in-law is a motion picture film editor and I don't even think his machine is that juiced up. > > On 10/27/10 7:04 PM, Lea Murphy wrote: >> Trevor, >> >> That is exactly WHY I dumped so much ram in here. >> >> I live on this machine if I'm not in the studio and time to spend waiting for the computer to do it's thing isn't something I have. >> >> Patience is one of the virtues I didn't seem to get much of. >> >> Ha. >> >> Lea >> >> On Oct 27, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Trevor Cunningham wrote: >> >>> I also have a measly 1Gb of RAM. When I have both PS CS4 and Lightroom open...well, let's just say I don't do that very often. >>> >>> On 10/27/10 5:58 PM, Emily L. Ferguson wrote: >>>> 22Gigs of RAM, really? Or is that 2.2 Gigs of RAM? I didn't know any Macs have enough ports for that many chips! >>>> >>>> If you really have that much RAM I can't imagine Time Machine slowing you down. It only updates files that have been changed, once it gets its basic database set up. >>>> >>>> There must be some other problem. How many apps do you have always open? Which versions of PS and iTunes are you running? Is your Time Machine USB? How long as it been since you've quit Bridge and PS or restarted? If you're using Lightroom, is your entire portfolio stored in it? >>>> >>>> Now I'm still running a G4 Powerbook with a single Gig of RAM, but the only time I see slowing is when I've just finished processing a 400 file shoot and the caches in both Bridge and PS are totally clogged with stuff. I haven't tried just emptying caches, but quitting PS and Bridge usually speeds things up an appreciable amount. >>>> >>>> On the other hand, if your Time Machine drive is USB 2, you could be suffering from that. USB writes packets of data to RAM before copying them to the attached drive. Firewire is a continuous stream without continuous addressing of the RAM at all. >> >> your kids . my camera . we'll click >> www.leamurphy.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >
