iMac or MBP...

[Jay Vaughan]

> Yeah, seconded. My machine at home (mostly used for games) is a Core i7 
> 960 (LGA1366; triple channel memory; 3.2 GHz); the one at work (used for 
> development using memory-hungry Netbeans and Oracle SQL Developer) is a 
> Core i7 860 (LGA1156; dual channel memory; 2.8 GHz). Both have 6 GB of 
> memory and I've never managed to get even near that capacity.


There is one reason for a lot of memory: virtualization.  On my machine with 16gigs of RAM, I can run two fat copies of Linux and an XP VM, each with their own abundance of RAM allocation, and still have lots and lots of room for native things outside the VM.  The extra RAM can be like having 4 more computers ..

(BTW, if you want to really see a VM perform amazingly well, put the image itself in a RAM disk.  I've got a Linux VM image that is 2 gigs in size - I copy this to my RAM disk and start it, and its the fastest I've ever seen a system operate..)

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Jay Vaughan