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Originally Posted by Katsunami
I love it (not) when people make statements like:
"It's going to take at least another 10 years before home computers will need more than 8GB of RAM."
Really?
Look at that attachment below. I'm just converting a few e-books. OK; I'm running a conversion of three Delphi Classics, each being 15K+ pages. Maybe not the most common task, but if I had more cores and more RAM...
Granted, normally my e-books are not that large, but often enough, I do run three or four CD -> FLAC rips at once.
I'm actually thinking of looking into a 6-core i7 / Xeon somewhere this year, even dropping in core speed if need be. I did upgrade this computer a few years ago from a dual core E8500 at 3.16 GHz to a quad core Q8400 at 2.67 GHz, and never regretted it one bit. I'd take an 8 core i7 at 2.4 GHz over a 6c/3.2GHz or 4c/3.6GHz any time. (If the prices are comparable.)
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My own 'puter?: I'm running an Intel Core i7 CPU, 3.07GHZ...and I'm running 18gigs--yes,
18gigs--of RAM. Win7, 64-bit.
Granted, it's a bit more than a "home computer," but nor is it a Sun Workstation. And I still manage to suck up all the available RAM on a not-infrequent basis.
FWIW. I'm pretty sure that 8gigs will be something in the past just as 1MB is now--eventually. The more is available, the more progammers make greedy programs and apps that suck it right up. ;-)
Hitch