Re: Alternative to a laptop?

[Mark Hamburg <mark_hamburg@baymoon.com>]

On Aug 31, 2007, at 4:03 PM, Doug Cox wrote:

> On a Macbook Pro, this RAM-shortage might not be a problem - WITH  
> THE NEW Santa Rosa platform.  It is definitely a well-documented  
> problem with all other Mac/Intel platforms.  The new "36-bit" chip  
> allows access to 4GB, and presumably (this is where I'm not  
> positive) OSX can really use it all because it doesn't do what  
> Windoze does (steal some of it).  In addition, 32-bit Mac apps can  
> still only access 2GB each.

The limit for 32-bit Mac applications actually seems to be somewhere  
around 3 gigabytes or so per application. Beyond that the system is  
pretty good about using extra RAM to support more applications or as  
a disk cache.

Mark